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BARON See also:PETER See also: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 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 . 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 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 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26) by virtue of which English superseded Latin as the See also: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 . 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 . His See also:great-great-See also:grandson, See also: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 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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