Background
KING, William Frederick was born on February 19, 1854 in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Son of William King and Ellen Archer.
KING, William Frederick was born on February 19, 1854 in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Son of William King and Ellen Archer.
Studied at Grammar School, Port Hope, Ontario. University of Toronto. Bachelor of Arts 1875.
Dominion Land and Topographical Surveyor, 1876. Inspector of Surveys, Department of the Interior, 1881.
Chief Inspector, 1886. His (or Her) Majesty Commissioner for the International Boundary between Canada and the United States under Treaties of 1892, 1903, 1906, and 1908. Also under Agreements, entered into in 1899, 1901, and 1906.
Member of International Waterways Commission, 1904-1907. Director of Dominion Astronomical Observatory from its opening in 1905. Fellow (and Honourable President since 1906) of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
Fellow ot the Royal Society of Canada. And of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Superintendent of the Geodetic Survey of Canada, 1909.
Member of Board of Examiners for Dominion Land Surveyors, since 1885. LL. D. 1004; Chief Astronomer of the Department of the Interior of Canada since 1890.
Clubs: Rideau, Laurentian, Ottawa.
Reading.
Spouse 1881, Augusta Florence,daughter of John Allen Snow, of Ottawa.