Education
Christ Church.
clergyman preacher rector of Shalden
Christ Church.
He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 4 July 1678, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1682, his Master of Arts in 1685, and his Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity in 1704. He then became the rector of Shalden, Hampshire. From the mid-1690s, he was Preacher at the Charterhouse School, and, upon the death of Thomas Burnet in 1715, King was made Master of Charterhouse.
A devout man who carried a copy of Thomas à Kempis"s Imitation of Christ with him everywhere, King had a formative influence on John Wesley, who was a gownboy at the Charterhouse School 1714-1720.
King was made Archdeacon of Colchester in 1722, and a Canon of Bristol in 1728.