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Rh King was absent on a special service at Gibraltar, and he was in consequence deprived of an opportunity of sharing in the triumph that was then achieved. He continued in the until Aug. 1806, and was subsequently appointed – 23 March, 1807, to the  64, in which ship, on his arrival with a valuable convoy in India, he assisted at the capture of Tranquebar – 24 Sept. 1811, after three years of half-pay, to the  74, part of the force employed at the blockade of Toulon, where he continued until Nov. 1812 – 14 Nov. 1814, to the  74, fitting for the East Indies, the command of which ship his health obliged him to resign 21 Dec. following – and 27 May, 1825, to the  74, stationed at first as a guard-ship at Plymouth, and next attached to an expedition to Lisbon, whence he returned to England and was paid off in May, 1828. On 22 July, 1830, our officer was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral; and in Jan. 1833 he was knighted and created a K.C.H. He afterwards commanded-in-chief, at first on the Brazil and Cape of Good Hope stations, and then on the Cape station alone, from 29 July, 1840, until the close of 1842; and since 18 April, 1845 (his promotion to the rank of Vice-Admiral having taken place 23 Nov. 1841), he has had the chief command at the Nore. – Messrs. Ommauney.

 KING. 

(a) entered the Navy, 1 May, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capts. John Wentworth Loring, Fras. Pickmore, and Henry Inman, lying in the Downs; and from Jan. 1805, until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 3 Sept. 1810, was employed under the present Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the and  frigates. He was consequently present in several affairs with the enemy’s flotilla; also in the attack made with Congreve’s rockets on the town of Boulogne in Oct. 1806, and in the operations against Flushing in 1809. On the occasion of his promotion as above, Mr. King joined the sloop, Capt. Daniel Ross, and sailed for the Baltic. From March, 1812, until within a few days of his attainment of the rank of Commander, 15 June, 1814, he served off the mouth of the Scheldt in the 36 and  74, both commanded by Capt. Owen. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander King is a Magistrate at Van Diemen’s Land. – Hallett and Robinson.

 KING. 

entered the Navy, in June, 1807, as Midshipman, on board the 74, commanded by the late Sir John Poo Beresford, and was for some time employed in the Channel and off Ferrol. Sailing next for the East Indies in the 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, he witnessed the capture of the Isle of France in Dec. 1810; after which he returned to England in the 36, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and in 1812, having rejoined Sir J. P. Beresford on board the 74, proceeded to the Chesapeake, where he saw a good deal of boat-service and assisted at the bombardment of Louis Town. In 1813 he was promoted by Sir John Borlase Warren to a Lieutenancy in the 18, Capt. Wm. Dowers, also on the North American station, whence, owing to some informality which had there occurred in his examination, he was under the necessity of returning to England, and of undergoing a second probationary ordeal. His official promotion did not in consequence take place until 22 Oct. 1814. He afterwards became Flag-Lieutenant to Lord Exmouth in the 98, and, on accompanying that officer into the  100, it was his fortune to participate in the same capacity in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816, on which occasion he was wounded in the leg. In July, 1821, after he had been for a period on half-pay, he was ordered to join the yacht, on the King’s staff, two Lieutenants not being at the time allowed, and one having been already appointed. While in that vessel he attended His Majesty (George IV.) on the occasion of his visit to Ireland, and he was always present in the boat in which the royal personage landed and re-embarked. He was promoted to the rank of Commander by a commission bearing date 14 Dec. 1821; and he was lastly, from Feb. 1823 until 1832, employed in the Coast Guard; on leaving which service the officers and men late under his superintendence presented him with a handsome snuff-box “as a testimony of their respect and esteem.”

He married, 27 June, 1825, Anne Sarah, relict of Fras. Hoey, Esq., of Dunganstown, co. Wicklow, and sister of Matthew Forde, Esq., M.P. for co. Down. By that lady he has issue.

 KING. 

, born 15 July, 1809, is second son (by his first wife, Sarah Anne, only daughter of Admiral Sir John Thos. Duckworth, G.C.B.) of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. King, Bart., K.C.B., whose second wife was a daughter of Admiral Sir Chas. Cotton, Bart. Capt. King is brother of the present Sir Rich. Duckworth King, Bart., of Belle Vue, co. Kent; brother-in-law of Sir Jas. S. Lake, Bart.; and nephew, by marriage, of the late Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, G.C.B. His grandfather. Admiral Sir Rich. King, Bart., who died in 1806, distinguished himself in India during the conflicts between Sir Edw. Hughes and Admiral de Suffrein in 1782-3.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 8 Feb. 1822, and embarked in 1824, as Midshipman, on board the 76, Capt. Sir Chas. Burrard, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, with whom he continued until 1827. In 1828 he joined the 52, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage in the East Indies, whence he returned to England on the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Jan. 1830. His next appointments were, 2 June, 1830, and 29 Dec. 1831, to the 18 and  42, Capts. Jas. Wallace Gabriel, Manley Hall Dixon, and Wm. Walpole, both on the West India station. He left the in Dec. 1833, and, obtaining a second promotal commission 8 Aug. 1834, was lastly employed in command, from 25 Jan. 1837 until paid off at the close of 1838, of the  18, on the West India station. He acquired his present rank 28 Aug. 1841. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 KING. 

entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, with whom, and latterly with Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell, he continued to serve, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the and  98’s, on the Home, Mediterranean, and West India stations, until Oct. 1802. His first commission bears date 18 of the latter month. His succeeding appointments were – 13 April, 1803, to the 80, bearing the flag of the last-mentioned officer in the Mediterranean – 27 March, 1805, to the  32, Capt. Wm. D’Urban, with whom he was for four years employed as Senior-Lieutenant on the same station – 26 Sept. 1809, in a similar capacity, to the 36, Capts. Patrick Campbell and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, also in the Mediterranean, whence (after having taken part in a very gallant 