KING, Peter (c.1669-1734), of the Middle Temple, London and Ockham, Surr.

Family and Education

b. c. 1669, s. of Jerome King, grocer and salter of Exeter, by Anne, da. of Peter Locke of Somerset. educ. ?Exeter g.s.; ?Exeter acad. (Joseph Hallett); appr. to fa.; ?Leyden; M.Temple 1694, called 1698. m. Sept. 1704 Anne (with £4,000), da. of Richard Seys of Boverton Court, Glam. 4s. 2da. Kntd. 12 Sept. 1708; cr. Baron King of Ockham 29 May 1725. DNB.

Offices Held

?Cursitor, Glos. Cambs and Bristol, ?– 1704; recorder, Glastonbury 1705, London 1708–15; freeman, Portsmouth 1731; gov. Charterhouse, St. Thomas’ Hosp. 1719. Add. 70076, (mic. M/799), newsletter 6 June 1704; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 379; J. Aubrey, Surr. (1719), 316; Al. Carth. 89.

Serjeant-at-law 1714; j.c.p. 1714–25; PC 29 Mar. 1715; ld. justice 1725, 1727; ld. chancellor 1725–33.

Commr. building 50 new churches 1715. E. G. W. Bill, Q. Anne Churches, p. xxiv.

FRS 1728.

Parlimentarian

KING, Peter (c.1669-1734), of the Middle Temple, London and Ockham, Surr.

Main residences: the Middle Temple, London; Ockham, Surr.

Author

M.J.K.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

KING, Peter (c.1669-1734)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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