KING, THOMAS. _b._ 1777 or 1778; entered Madras army 1799; col.
19 Madras N.I. 1845 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Louisa
terrace, Exmouth 29 Dec. 1859.
KING, THOMAS. _b._ Silver st. Stepney, London 14 Aug. 1835; in
the navy a short time; foreman of labourers at Victoria Docks,
London; beat Tom Truckle of Portsmouth £50 a side, 49 rounds in
62 minutes 27 Nov. 1860; beat Wm. Evans known as Young Broome
£50 a side, 43 rounds in 42 minutes 21 Oct. 1861; beaten by
James Mace £200 a side, 43 rounds in 68 minutes 28 Jany. 1862;
beat James Mace £200 a side and the championship, 21 rounds in
38 minutes 26 Nov. 1862; resigned the championship and would not
fight Mace again; fought John Camel Heenan for £1000 a side and
the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in
24 rounds lasting 35 minutes, this fight brought him in by means
of stakes and presents nearly £4000; stood 6 feet 2¼ inches and
weighed 176 lbs.; a bookmaker 1863 to death; sculled races on
the river 1867; took many prizes at flower shows in and around
London. _d._ of bronchitis at Clarence house, Clarence road,
Clapham, London 4 Oct. 1888, value of his personalty declared
at £54,472. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 490–518 (1881),
_portrait_; _Modern Boxing, By Pendragon_ [_Henry Sampson_]
(1879) 43–50, 57–78; _Sporting Times 13 March 1875_, _portrait_;
_W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring_ (1888)
54–9, _portrait_.
KING, THOMAS WILLIAM. _b._ 21 June 1801; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1836,
on library committee 1853–65, a contributor to the Archæologia
and to the Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries; Rouge Dragon
pursuivant, Herald’s Office, London 20 May 1833 to 17 June 1848,
York Herald 17 June 1848 to death; wrote Lancashire Funeral
certificates, Chetham Society vol. 75 (1869); The pedigree of
sir Philip Sidney. By R. Cooke. The restorations made by T. W.
King 1869. _d._ Leicester road, New Barnett 4 Feb. 1872.
KING, Walker (son of Walker King 1751–1827, bishop of
Rochester). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 1798; ed. at Westminster
and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; R of Stone, Kent
6 July 1822 to death; P.C. of Bromley, Kent 1824–7; preb. of
Rochester 1827 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 25 June 1827 to
death, installed 6 July 1827; author of The revival of diocesan
synods, a charge 1838. _d._ Woodside, Stone, Kent 13 March 1859.
KING, WILLIAM (son of rev. John King, master of Ipswich gr.
sch.) _b._ Ipswich 17 April 1786; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Camb.,
fellow 1806–21; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, M.D. 1819; F.R.C.P.
1820, delivered Harveian oration 1843; lived at Brighton
1823 to death; wrote a small monthly periodical entitled
The Co-operator, May 1828 to July 1830; consulting phys. to
Sussex county hospital 1842–61; published Observations on the
artificial mineral waters of Dr. Struve prepared at Brighton
1826; The Institutions of De Fellenberg 1842; Medical Essays