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HENRY KING (1591-1669)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY KING (1591-1669)  ,
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English bishop and poet, eldest son of John King, afterwards bishop of
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London, was baptized on the 16th of
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January 1591 . With his younger
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brother John he proceeded from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford, where both matriculated on the loth of January 1609 . Henry King entered the church, and after receiving various ecclesiastical preferments he was made bishop of
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Chichester in 1642, receiving at the same time the rich living of Petworth, Sussex . On the 29th of December of that
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year Chichester surrendered to the
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Parliamentary army, and King was among the prisoners . After his release he found an asylum with his brother-in-law,
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Sir Richard Hobart of Langley, Buckinghamshire, and afterwards at Richkings near by, with Lady Salter, said to have been a
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sister of Dr Brian Duppa (1588–1662) . King was a close friend of Duppa and personally acquainted with Charles I . In one of his poems dated 1649 he speaks of the Eikon Basilike as the king's own.
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work . Restored to his benefice at the Restoration, King died at Chichester on the 3oth of September 1669 . His
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works include Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonets (1657), The Psalmes of David from the New
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Translation of the Bible, turned into Meter (1651), and several sermons . He was one of the executors of John Donne, and prefixed an
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elegy to the 1663 edition of his friend's poems . King's Poems and Psalms were edited, with a
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biographical sketch, by the Rev . J .

Hannah (1843) .

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