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CHARLES WILLIAM KING (1818-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:WILLIAM See also:KING (1818-1888)  , See also:English writer on See also:ancient gems, was See also:born at See also:Newport (Mon.) on the 5th of See also:September 1818 . He entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1836; graduated in 184o, and obtained a fellowship in 1842; he was See also:senior See also:fellow at the See also:time of his See also:death in See also:London on the 25th of See also:March 1888 . He took See also:holy orders, but never held any cure . He spent much time in See also:Italy, where he laid the See also:foundation of his collection of gems, which, increased by subsequent purchases in London, was sold by him in consequence of his failing eyesight and was presented in 1881 to the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New See also:York . See also:King was recognized universally as one of the greatest authorities in this See also:department of art . His See also:chief See also:works on the subject are: See also:Antique Gems, their Origin, Uses and Value (186o), a See also:complete and exhaustive See also:treatise; The Gnostics and their Remains (2nd ed. by J . See also:Jacobs, 1887, which led to an animated See also:correspondence in the See also:Athenaeum); The Natural See also:History of See also:Precious Stones and Gems and of the Precious Metals (1865); The Handbook of Engraved Gems (2nd ed., 1885); See also:Early See also:Christian See also:Numismatics (1873) . King was thoroughly See also:familiar with the works of See also:Greek and Latin authors, especially See also:Pausanias and the See also:elder See also:Pliny, which See also:bore upon the subject in which he was most interested; but he had little See also:taste for the minutiae of verbal See also:criticism . In 1869 he brought out an edition of See also:Horace, illustrated from antique gems; he also translated See also:Plutarch's Moralist (1882) and the theosophical works of the See also:Emperor See also:Julian (1888) for See also:Bohn's Classical Library .

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