Edward King (English bishop)
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bishop.
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He was the second son of the Revd Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector of Stone, KentStone, Kent
Stone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford, is one of a string of villages lying along the Dartford to Gravesend road on the south bank of the River Thames in Kent, England.-History:...
, and grandson of the Revd Walker King
Walker King
Walker King was an English churchman and man of letters, bishop of Rochester from 1809 and with French Laurence editor of the works of Edmund Burke.-Life:...
, Bishop of Rochester
Bishop of Rochester
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; his nephew was the Revd Robert Stuart King
Robert King (footballer)
Canon Robert Stuart King was an English international footballer and Anglican clergyman.-Family:Robert Stuart King was born into a family of clergymen...
, who played football for England in 1882.
King graduated from Oriel College, Oxford
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, was ordained in 1854, and four years later became chaplain and lecturer at Cuddesdon Theological College (now Ripon College Cuddesdon
Ripon College Cuddesdon
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). He was principal at Cuddesdon from 1863 to 1873, when he became Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford
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and canon
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of Christ Church
Christ Church, Oxford
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. He was the principal founder of the leading catholic theological college in the Church of England, St Stephen's House, Oxford
St Stephen's House, Oxford
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, now a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford. To the world outside he was known at this time as one of Edward Pusey's most intimate friends and as a leading member of the English Church Union. But in Oxford, and especially among the younger men, he exercised influence by his charm and sincerity.
In 1885 King was made Bishop of Lincoln
Bishop of Lincoln
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. The most eventful episode of his episcopate was his prosecution (1888–1890) for ritualistic practices before the Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
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, Edward White Benson
Edward White Benson
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, and, on appeal, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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. Dr King, who loyally conformed his practices to the archbishop's judgment, devoted himself unsparingly to the work of his diocese; and, irrespective of his High Church views, he won the affection and reverence of all classes by his real saintliness of character. The bishop, who never married, died in Lincoln.