King, Henry, D.D., bishop of Chichester, and eld- est son of John King (q. v.), was born at Wornall, Buck- inghamshire, in Jan. 1591. He studied at Westminster School, from whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1608. Having entered the Church, he be- came chaplain to king James I, archdeacon of Colches- ter, residentiary of St.Paul's, and canon of Christ Church;' dean of Rochester in 1638, and finally bishop of Chi- chester in 1641. Although he was generally considered a Puritan, and his nomination had been a measure to conciliate that party, he remained a faithful adherent of the king during the civil war, and at the Restoration was reinstalled in his bishopric. He died Oct. 1, 16G9, He was considered a very successful preacher and a learned divine. His principal works are, A n Exposition
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upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1034, 4to) : — A Sermon of Deliverance, Psa. xci, 3 (Load. 1G2G, 4to) : — Two Ser- vians vpon the Act Sunday, July 10, 1025 (Oxford, 1G25, 4to) : — The Pscdms of David turned into Metre (1621, 12mo; new edition, with biographical notice, notes, etc., by Dr. John Hannah, 1843, 12ino) ; etc. See Wood, .4 the- nce Oxonienscs, vol. ii ; EUis, Specimens, vol. iii ; Chal- mers, Gen. Biof/. Dictionary ; Iloefcr, Nouv. Bioy. Ge- nerate, xxvii, 739 ; Allibone, Diet, of Enylish and Amer- ican A itthors, ii, s. v. (J. N. P.)
King, James S., a Presbyterian minister, was bom at Albany, X. Y., Aug. 20, 1832. He graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J., and studied the- ology in the Princeton Seminarj'. He was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and in 1858 ordained and in- stalletl pastor of the Rockland Lake Church, New Y'ork, ^vhere he ^vas quite successful and greatly beloved by his people. Failing health, however, compelled him to withdraw from the active duties of the pastorate. Dur- ing the iicriod of his necessitated rest he did some effec- tive work. He died at Woodlawn, near Sing Sing, New Y'ork, Sept. 15, 1864. INIr. King was an estimable min- ister, of good talents, and thoroughly consecrated to his work. See Wilson, Fresh. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 126; Appleton, ,1 nnual Cyclopiedia, 1865, p. 468.
King, John (1), D.D., bishop of London, an English theologian and a descendant of Robert King, first bishop of Oxford, was born at Wornall, Buckinghamshire, about 1559. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford. Having entered the Church, he became successively chaplain to queen Elizabeth, archdeacon of Nottingham in 1590, D.D. in 1601, dean of Christ Church in 1605, and, final- ly, bishop of London in 1611. He died in 1621. James I called him the khvj of preachers. He wrote Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yoi-Jce, 1594 (Lond. 1611, 4to), and some Sermons. Sec Wood, A thence Oxonienses, vol. i ; Dodd, Church History, vol. i ; Hoefer, Nouv. Bioy. Ge- nercde, xxvii, 739 ; Allibone, Diet, of Enylish and Amer- ican A uthors.
King, John (2), D.D., an English theologian, was born in Cornwall in 1652. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and became sticccsively rector of Chelsea and (in 1731) prebendary of the Cathedral of Y'ork. He died May 30, 1732. King wrote A nimadveisions (2d ed. 1702, 4to) -.—The Case of John Atherton, Bishop of Wa- /fr/b?-fZ(1716, 8vo); and a number of Sermons. — Hoefer, A''ouv. Bioy. Genh-ale, xxii, 742.
King, John (3), a Methodist minister, of whose early history nothing is definitely known, was one of the first lay evangelists who founded Methodism in this coiuitry. He came from London to America in the lat- ter part of 17C9, and his enthusiastic sympathy with the pioneer Jlethodists led him to throw himself imme- diately into their ranks. The Church hesitated when he presented himself for license, but, persistent in his determination to preach, he made an appointment "in the Potter's Field," where he proclaimed his first mes- sage over the graves of the poor, and began a career of eminent usefulness. Afterwards he was licensed, and stationed in Wilmington, Del. Thence ho went into ]\ran,-land, and was the first to introduce Methodism to the poo[ile of Baltimore. In this latter place he preach- ed from tables in the public streets, and suffered much opposition from frequent mobs. Kmg was afterwards received into the regular itinerancy. He was a mem- ber of the first Conference of 1773, and was appointed to New Jersey. He soon after entered Virginia ; still later he :vas again in New Jersey. He located during the Revolution, but in 1801 reappeared in the itinerant ranks in Virginia, and finally located in 1803. Kmg was a pious, zealous, and useful man. He died at an advanced age, in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C. He was probably the only survivor, at the time of his decease, of all the preachers of ante-re volutif>narj' date. — Stevens, Hist, if the J/. ]■:. Church, i, 87. (J. L. S.)
King, John Glen, D.D., F.R.S., F.A.S., a distin-
guished English theologian and antiquarian, was bom in Norfolk about 1731. He studied at Caius College, Cambridge, entered the Chiu-ch, and in 1764 was ap- pointed chaplain to the English factory at Petersburg. He afterwards became successively rector of ^^'ormley, Hertfordshire (in 1783), and minister of the chapel in Broad Court, Drury Lane, London (in 1786). He died Nov. 3, 1787. King wrote The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church in Russia, containiny an A ccount of its