1ST See also:BARON See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- 1ST BARON PETER KING KING [OF OCKHAM] (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
KING KING [OF OCKHAM] (1669-1734)
, See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, was See also:born at See also:Exeter in 1669
.
In his youth he was interested in See also:early See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:history, and published anonymously in 1691 An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity and See also:Worship of the See also:Primitive Church that flourished within the first Three See also:Hundred Years after See also:Christ
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This See also:treatise engaged the See also:interest of his See also:cousin, See also:John See also:Locke, the philosopher, by whose See also:advice his See also:father sent him to the university of See also:Leiden, where he stayed for nearly three years
.
He entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1694 and was called to the See also:bar in 1698
.
In 1700 he was returned to See also:parliament for See also:Beer See also:Alston in See also:Devonshire; he was appointed See also:recorder of See also:Glastonbury in 1705 and recorder of See also:London in 1708
.
He was See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:common pleas from 1714 to 1725, when he was appointed See also:speaker of the See also:House of Lords and was raised to the See also:peerage
.
In See also:June of the same See also:year be was made lord chancellor, holding See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until compelled by a paralytic stroke to resign in 1733
.
He died at Ockham, See also:Surrey, on the 22nd of See also:July 1734
.
Lord See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King as chancellor failed to sustain the reputation which he had acquired at the common See also:law bar
.
Nevertheless he See also:left his See also:mark on See also:English law by establishing the principles that a will of immovable See also:property is governed by the lex loci rei sitae, and that where a See also:husband had a legal right to the persona] See also:estate of his wife, which must be asserted by a suit in See also:equity, the See also:court would not help him unless he made a See also:provision out of the property for the wife, if she required it
.
He was also the author of the See also:Act (4 Geo
.
II. c
.
26) by virtue of which English superseded Latin as the See also:language of the courts
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Lord King published in 1702 a History of the Apostles' Creed (See also:Leipzig, 1706; See also:Basel, 1750) which went through several See also:editions and was also translated into Latin
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His See also:great-great-See also:grandson, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1805-1893), married in 1835 the only daughter of Lord See also:Byron the poet, and was created See also:earl of See also:Lovelace in 1838
.
Another descendant, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER JOHN LOCKE KING (1811-1885), who was member of parliament for See also:East Surrey from 1847 to 1874, won some fame as an See also:advocate of reform, being responsible for the passing of the Real Estate Charges Act of 18J4, and for the See also:repeal of a large number of obsolete See also:laws
.
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