KING, Sir Henry. b. 1777 or 1778; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 March 1794; lost his right leg in attack on Rahmanie, Egypt 9 May 1801; major Sicilian regiment 5 Feb. 1807; major 82 foot 30 April 1807, lieut. col. 4 June 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854; col. 3 foot 18 March 1845 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; governor of Heligoland 1817–1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1834; K.C.H. 1834. d. 7 Sussex terrace, Hyde park, London 24 July 1854.
KING, Henry (son of Charles King, huntsman to the Pytchley hounds to 1818, d. 1857). b. Brington near Althorp park 1815; in the Warwickshire kennels under Jack Wood 1828–30; second whip to Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake 1830 and to Mr. Applewhaite 1831–36; third whip to the Royal Buckhounds, July 1836, second whip 1850, first whip 1855–65; her majesty’s huntsman 2 April 1866 to death, the kennel consisted of 40 couple of hounds. d. the Royal kennels, Ascot 30 Dec. 1871. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 6 Jany. 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvii (1870) portrait, xviii 5–14 (1870), xxi 246 (1872); Windsor and Eton Express 6 Jany. 1872 p. 4, 13 Jany. p. 4.
KING, Henry Samuel (son of Henry King of Brighton). b. Lewes 15 Nov. 1817; bookseller at Brighton with an elder brother 1837 or 1838, then alone; partner in firm of Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, London, in 1868 the partners separated, H. S. King retaining the Indian agency and banking business in his own name; firm became Henry S. King & Co. bankers and East India, army, navy and colonial agents 45 Pall Mall, 65 Cornhill and 14 Worship st.; proprietor of the Homeward Mail and the Overland Mail; published many works 1871–77; relinquished publishing and bookselling portion of his business 1877. d. 45 Pall Mall, London 17 Nov. 1878. Bookseller 2 Dec. 1878 p. 1215; Academy, ii 497 (1878).
KING, James King (elder son of rev. James Simpkinson 1767–1842, R. of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who assumed name of King 1837). b. Weybridge, Surrey 6 Nov. 1806; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1865; sheriff of Hereford 1845; M.P. Herefordshire 1852–68. d. Staunton park, Herefordshire 17 June 1881.
KING, John. b. Moy, co. Antrim 15 Dec. 1838; a private in 70 regt. in India, where he was employed by G. T. Landells when purchasing the camels for the Burke and Wills Australian exploring expedition 1860; went on the expedition to Carpentaria, the only survivor of the party which started from Cooper’s Creek 16 Dec. 1860, rescued by Alfred Howitt, July 1861; had pension from Victorian government of £180 a year. d. of phthisis at Melbourne 15 Jany. 1872.
KING, John. b. Stirling 1789; ed. Stirling gram. sch.; manager of Hurlet and Campsie alum co.’s works at Campsie; manager of G. Macintosh and co.’s Cudbear dye works at Dunchattan 1825, a partner 1825, became sole owner 1848, closed the works 1851; partner in Hurlet and Campsie alum co. 1851 to death. d. Levernholme, parish of Eastwood 31 Oct. 1875. Memoirs of One hundred Glasgow men, ii 169–70 (1886), portrait.
Note.—The staple articles in the dye works were cudbear and archil, extracted from seaweed imported from Sweden and Peru, used in colouring woollens and silks crimson and purple, the new modern brilliant dyes ruined this business.
KING, John Crookshanks. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 11 Oct. 1806; went to U.S. America 1829, a superintendent of factories; in Cincinnati and Louisville several years; made a clay model of his wife’s head 1834; resided in New Orleans modelling busts and making cameo likenesses 1837–40; removed to Boston, Massachusetts; made busts of D. Webster, J. Q. Adams, Louis Agassiz and R. W. Emerson. d. Boston 21 April 1882.
KING, John Duncan. b. 1789; ensign 71 foot 28 Aug. 1806; lieut. 7 foot 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 20 April 1820; lieut. 75 foot 14 May 1829, placed on h.p. 28 Dec. 1830; served in the Walcheren expedition and in Peninsular war; military knight of Windsor 1850 to death; landscape painter, exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 39 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1824–58. d. Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1863.
KING, John Hynde. Ensign 49 foot 6 Sep. 1844, major 2 Oct. 1855; wounded in the assault on the Redan 16 June 1855; captain grenadier guards 19 Dec. 1856 and major 29 May 1867 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Aldershot camp 9 July 1870.