Edward King DD (1575 - 1639)

Born 1575 in Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Coxsed) King — married 1609 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1639 at about age 64 in Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland

Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Right Reverend Edward King was born in 1575, in England.

He was a M.A. 1596, Fellow in 1598 at Trinity College, Dublin. ^[1] D.D. 18 August 1614. Cotton states that he received his education at the University of Oxford, but no record appears in the Oxford Alumni Register.

He was presented as Dean of Elphin by patent dated 28 May 1603. [Lib. Mun.]

Vicar of St Catherine's. Dublin 31 October 1606

He was presented as Bishop of Elphin on 15 November 1611, and was consecrated in the following month. He undertook to repair the cathedral of Elphin; to build a solid residence for himself and his successors; and to recover some of the property which his predecessor had alienated from the see. Having in some degree effected this, he voluntarily resigned to his clergy the "quarta pars episcopalis", which they had long been accustomed to pay. The "quarta pars episcopalis" was the fourth part of the tithes reserved for the bishop, the other parts going to the clergy.

Dod's Peerage of 1848 says of him that "...his bishopric, which he found the poorest, he left one of the richest in all Ireland". ^[2]

He governed the diocese with great reputation twenty-seven years and three months.

Edward married, firstly, Anne Coxsed in 1609, with whom he had two sons.

Children

1. James married Judith Rawson
2. John married Sarah Conway

Edward married, secondly, Grace Sampson, daughter of Nathaniel Sampson.

He died on 8 March 1638-9, aged 63, and was buried in his cathedral. His tombstone, now set up against the interior wall of the vestry, is inscribed:

Here lyeth the body of Edward King, Doctor in Divinity, consecrated bishop of Elphin, anno Dni 1610, and continued Bp. in that See until the eighth of March 1638, on which day and yeare he dyed at the age of 63. This bishop much augmented the revenue of that See, was a constant Preacher of God's Word, and a man of great sanctity of life."

Ballylin House

THE KINGS WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN THE KING'S COUNTY, WITH 10,242 ACRES

This family, and that of Sir Gilbert King, 1st Baronet, of Charlestown, County Roscommon, is one and the same, descended from

THE RT REV EDWARD KING (1577-1639), born at Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, 1593, two years after its foundation, and consecrated Lord Bishop of Elphin, 1611.

His lordship married twice, and left sons and daughters, among them John King, of Boyle, County Roscommon, whose daughter, Anne, wedded Dominick French, of Dungar, or French Park, County Roscommon

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
2. ↑ Dod, Charles R., The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland (1848) p. 279

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p34814.htm#i348137
• https://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/07/ballylin-house.html
• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
• Vol 4 - The Province of Connaught, Pg 125, 134
• Wikipedia - Edward king

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Clinton Peterson for creating WikiTree profile King-7761 through the import of Peterson Family Tree.ged on Jul 25, 2013.