Background
King was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1836.
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King was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1836.
Charles William King graduated in 1840, and obtained a fellowship in 1842.
Charles William King was a senior fellow at the time of his death in London. He spent much time in Italy, where he laid the foundation of his collection of engraved gems and gemstones, which, having been increased by subsequent purchases in London, was sold by him in consequence of his failing eyesight, and was presented in 1881 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New New York He was recognized universally as one of the greatest authorities in this department of art.
King took holy orders, but never held any cure. He was thoroughly familiar with the works of Greek and Latin authors, especially those of Pausanias and Pliny the Elder, which bore upon the subject in which he was most interested. But he had little taste for the minutiae of verbal criticism. In 1869, he brought out an edition of Horace, illustrated from antique gems.
Charles William King also translated Plutarch"s Moralia (1882) and the theosophical works of the Emperor Julian (1888), for Bohn"s Classical Library.
King was recognized universally as one of the greatest authorities in this department of art. His chief works on the subject are: Antique Gems, their Origin, Uses and Value (1860), a complete and exhaustive treatise; The I Gnostics and their Remains (2nd ed. by J. Jacobs, 1887 and others.
