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See also:CHULALONGKORN, PHRA PARAMINDR MAHA (1853-1910) , See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Siam, eldest son of King Maha Mongkut, was See also:born on the 21St of See also:September 1853. His full See also:signature, used in all important See also:state documents, consists of twenty-seven names, but it is by the first four that he is usually known. Educated in his childhood by See also:English teachers, he acquired a See also:good knowledge of the English See also:language and of Western culture. But his surroundings were purely See also:oriental, and his boyhood was spent, according to See also:custom, in a Buddhist monastery. He succeeded to the See also:throne on the See also:death of his See also:father, 1st See also:October 1868, and was crowned on, the 1th of See also:November following, a ceremony marked by the innovation of permitting the presence of Europeans. Until his See also:majority in 1873 the See also:government was carried on by a See also:regent, the See also:young king retiring to a Buddhist monastery, and later making a tour through See also:India and the Dutch See also:East Indies, an undertaking until then without precedent among the potentates of eastern See also:Asia. He had no sooner taken the reins of See also:power than he gave See also:evidence of his recognition of the importance of See also:modern culture by abolishing See also:slavery in Siam. He simplified See also:court See also:etiquette, no longer demanding, for example, that his subjects should approach him on hands and knees. Still more important, in view of the numerous races and See also:creeds included among his subjects, was the See also:proclamation of See also:liberty of See also:conscience. This was followed by the erection of See also:schools and hospitals, the construction of roads and See also:railways, and the further development of the See also:army and See also:fleet which his father had initiated. To him Siam is indebted for its See also:standard coinage, its postal and See also:telegraph service, and for the policing, sanitation and electric-See also:lighting of See also:Bangkok. Several of his sons, including the See also:crown See also:prince, were educated. in See also:England, and in the summer of 1897 he himself visited England, arriving at See also:Portsmouth in his yacht on the 29th of See also:July. On the 4th of See also:August he was received by See also:Queen See also:Victoria at See also:Osborne. After a tour in See also:Great See also:Britain he proceeded to See also:Berlin, See also:Brussels, and the See also:Hague and See also:Paris.
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