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College of physicians_, _iii_ 226–7 (1878). KING, WILLIAM. Art dealer and broker in London. _d._ 19 Ovington gardens, London 24 April 1884, will proved 9 July exceeding £136,000; left £100,000, 3 per cent. consols, to St. George’s hospital, London on condition that one ward should always be called the William King ward. _The Times 19 July 1884 p._ 6. KING, WILLIAM. _b._ Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. _d._ Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. _Nature 1 July 1886 p._ 200. KING, WILLIAM SMYTH. _b._ 1809; incumbent of Carlow to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin to death; dean of Leighlin 1877 to death. _d._ Carlow 30 Dec. 1889. KING, WILLIAM THOMAS POOLE (son of Thomas King). _b._ 1805 or 1806; member of Bristol town council many years; sheriff of Bristol 1871; master of Merchant Venturers’ soc.; one of the pioneers of the West Africa commerce with England; led a party of men armed with cutlasses against the Bristol rioters in 1831; director of Bristol and Exeter railway co. 1836; a founder and member of Bristol Engineer volunteer corps 16 April 1861. _d._ Avonside, Clifton 13 Sep. 1887. KING-CHURCH, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1787; employed in Tower of London; took additional name of Church by r.l. 13 Feb. 1849; apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic church 14 Dec. 1833 to death, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were assigned to his care. _d._ Albury, Surrey 16 Sep. 1865. _E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i_ 139, 167, 181, 294 (1878). KINGCOME, SIR JOHN (son of Henry Kingcome). _b._ Revelstoke, Devon 14 Feb. 1794; entered navy 28 May 1808, captain 28 June 1838; present at signature of treaty of peace with China 29 Aug. 1842; captain of the Royal William 120 guns 16 Feb. 1854 to 18 June 1856; granted good service pension 1 Nov. 1854; R.A. of the Blue 10 Sep. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 31 Oct. 1862 to 10 May 1864; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ 5 Windsor villas, Plymouth 7 Aug. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_ 187 (1871). KINGDOM, JOHN M. _b._ London; solicitor; wrote the following plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders; The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A. Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. _d._ New York 24 July 1876. KINGDON, EMMELINE MARIA (youngest dau. of rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, R. of Pyworthy, Devon 1808 until his death 31 Jany. 1853 aged 78). Lady superintendent of the Royal School for the daughters of officers of the army, Lansdowne, Bath 1864–82 when she became paralysed; the school attained a high reputation through her energy and judgment. _d._ 1 Dynham road, West Hampstead, London 25 March 1890. _bur._ Paddington cemet. 29 March. KINGDON, SAMUEL NICHOLSON (brother of the preceding). _b._ Bridgerule, Devon 16 March 1805; V. of Bridgerule 1844 to death; author of Church Psalmody 1856; The history and sacred obligation of the Sabbath 1856; Tracts for the times on political subjects [n.d.] 1866, anon. _d._ Bridgerule 17 March