Author: King, Anthony
Biography:
KING, Anthony (b c. 1745: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the son of Sir Anthony King, an alderman in Dublin who was Lord Mayor (1778-79), and his wife Elizabeth Price. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, earning his BA (1765), MA (1768), and LLB and LLD (1781). On 25 July 1770 he entered the Middle Temple, London, and was called to the bar in 1772; likely he was called to the Irish bar at about the same date. He married Jane Singleton of County Clare in 1774; it is not known if they had children nor have records been located for the date of his death. A poem of his is included in Gorges Edmond Howard’s (q.v.) Miscellaneous Works (1782). The dedication to his Thoughts on the Expediency of Adopting a System of National Education (1793) is dated from Frederick Street, Dublin. (ancestry.co.uk 15 Apr. 2021; D. Fairer, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 [2014]; B. Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland [1852]; Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple [1949]; A Catalogue of Graduates who Have Proceeded to Degrees in the University of Dublin [1869])