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KING, HENRY (1591-1669)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KING, See also:HENRY (1591-1669) , See also:English See also:bishop and poet, eldest son of See also:John King, afterwards bishop of See also:London, was baptized on the 16th of See also:January 1591. With his younger See also:brother John he proceeded from See also:Westminster School to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where both matriculated on the loth of January 1609. Henry King entered the church, and after receiving various ecclesiastical preferments he was made bishop of See also:Chichester in 1642, receiving at the same See also:time the See also:rich living of Petworth, See also:Sussex. On the 29th of See also:December of that See also:year Chichester surrendered to the See also:Parliamentary See also:army, and King was among the prisoners. After his See also:release he found an See also:asylum with his brother-in-See also:law, See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Hobart of See also:Langley, See also:Buckinghamshire, and afterwards at Richkings near by, with See also:Lady See also:Salter, said to have been a See also:sister of Dr See also:Brian Duppa (1588–1662). King was a See also:close friend of Duppa and personally acquainted with See also:Charles I. In one of his poems dated 1649 he speaks of the Eikon Basilike as the king's own.See also:work. Restored to his See also:benefice at the Restoration, King died at Chichester on the 3oth of See also:September 1669. His See also:works include Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonets (1657), The Psalmes of See also:David from the New See also:Translation of the See also:Bible, turned into See also:Meter (1651), and several sermons. He was one of the executors of John See also:Donne, and prefixed an See also:elegy to the 1663 edition of his friend's poems. King's Poems and See also:Psalms were edited, with a See also:biographical See also:sketch, by the Rev. J.

Hannah (1843).

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