Author: Kingdom, John
Biography:
KINGDOM, John (c. 1767-1852: GM)
"John Kingdom, Esq., formerly of Batheaston" near Bath in Somerset, died at the spa town of Cheltenham at the age of 85. Records are scanty but he was evidently a gentleman with the standard classical education for whom literature was a leisure pursuit. Most of the poems in his Scraps are social and occasional. Besides the three titles in this bibliography he published The Crusaders, or, The Siege of Acre (n.d.), a theatrical spectacle in prose, identifying himself on the title-page as the author of "Madeline," "Giralda," and three other poems which had probably all been published separately (and anonymously) in periodicals. In 1812 he married Elizabeth Turner (possibly Tanner) at the church of St. James, Bath. The couple had a son, John, who died in 1830 at the age of eleven and was buried in Bath Abbey. It is not clear whether there were any other children. (ancestry.com 6 Jun. 2021; findmypast.com 6 Jun. 2021; GM 191 [1852] 212)
Other Names:
- I. K.--I. Kingdom
- J. K.