Background
Suffolk, he was the son of George King, rector of Southacre in Norfolk.
Suffolk, he was the son of George King, rector of Southacre in Norfolk.
He was educated at Swaffham School, and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1752 and Master of Arts During his residence in Russia he was appointed medallist to Catherine the Great. And studied the history and liturgical rites of Orthodox church.
Born in Stowmarket. in 1763. After taking orders he was presented by the king in 1760 to the vicarage of Barwick Parva, Norfolk. And subsequently was appointed chaplain to the English factory at Street St. Petersburg.
King became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 January 1771, and then on 21 February that year was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was incorporated Master of Arts King died at his house in Edward Street, London, after a few hours" illness, on 3 November 1787, and was buried in the churchyard of Wormley.
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at Oxford, on 19 March 1771, as a member of Christ Church, Oxford, and four days later took Oxford degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity He was presented to the rectory of Wormley, Hertfordshire, by Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, in July 1783.