Page:A Naval Biographical Dictionary.djvu/628

614 action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, where that frigate, in company with the 38, and  18, effectually destroyed the armed storeships Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops) he invalided in Aug. 1811 – 1 May, 1812, to the  74, Capt. John Halliday, in the Channel – and, 14 Sept. following, as First, to the  38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon. In Aug. 1814, Lieut. King (who had made a voyage to South America, and had been for some time actively employed in the Chesapeake) accompanied the brilliant expedition up the Potomac, where he assisted at the destruction of Fort Washington and witnessed the capitulation of |Alexandria. Such was his eagerness to participate in the hardships and dangers encountered by the British during their subsequent descent of the river that he actually left a sick bed for the purpose of commanding at his quarters; and the two first guns he pointed each disabled a gun of the enemy. Proportionately great, therefore, was the official praise bestowed upon him by Capt. Gordon. He was in consequence promoted to his present rank on 19 of the following Oct., but has not been since afloat.

Commander King is a Police Magistrate at New Zealand. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 KING. 

(b) passed his examination 18 June, 1839; served as Mate of the 72, Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, at the capture of Canton and Chinghae, in 1841; and was for some time employed in the same capacity on board the  72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, and 26, Capt. Joseph Nias. We are informed that Mr. King, whose first commission bears date 8 Oct. 1841, was Lieutenant of the at the attack upon Chapoo and Woosung, and in the operations on the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1842. He afterwards, from 7 Nov. 1843 until the summer of 1845, served in the troop-ship, Capts. Wm. Maclean and Wm. Radcliffe; and on 9 Nov. 1846 he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 KING. 

(a) entered the Navy, 21 May, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Andrew King and Sir Home Popham, in which ship, after attending the expedition to the Walcheren, he served in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain until unfortunately taken prisoner in a land affair at Guetaria 17 July, 1812. On his return to liberty he joined, in May, 1814, the 74, commanded at first by Sir H. Popham, and afterwards by Capt. Wm. Butterfield; and in the following Aug. he removed to the 38, Capt. John Bastard, stationed off Lisbon and Gibraltar. From June, 1815, until May, 1816, we find him employed on board the Iris, flag-ship in the Thames of his friend Sir Home Popham. In Oct. 1817 he accompanied that officer, in the frigate, to the West Indies, where, on 29 Jan. 1818, he was nominated by him to a Lieutenancy in the  18, Capt. Norwich Duff – an act which the Admiralty confirmed by a commission dated 30 April in the same year. Mr. King’s next appointments were to the 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, sloop, Capts. Wm. Popham and Rich. Saumarez, frigate, Capt. Hyde Parker, and  again, Capt. Wm. Popham. He has been on half-pay, we believe, since 1820. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 KING. 

was Midshipman of the 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria. He passed his examination 12 April, 1842; served as Mate in the 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and 16, Capt. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, on the Pacific, Home, and East India stations; obtained his commission 7 Feb. 1846; and on 11 of the same month was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, also in the East Indies. While in the we find him assisting at the destruction, 19 Aug. 1845, by a force under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, the fiercely-defended stronghold of a Borneo chieftain named Scheriff Osman.

 KING. 

King passed his examination 11 July, 1840; and was for several years employed on the Mediterranean, East India, and other stations, as Mate, in the 72, Capt. John Toup Nicolas,  18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel,  16, Capt. Geo. Greville Wellesley, and troop-ship, Capts. Wm. Maclean and Wm. Radcliffe. He obtained his commission 6 April, 1846, and is still serving in the.

 KING. 

is sixth son of Robert, second Earl of Kingston, by Catherine, only daughter of Rich. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Mount Ophaley, co. Kildare. He is brother of the late Capt. Edw. King, R.N., as also of the late Major-General Sir Henry King, K.C.B.; brother in-law of the late Earl of Mountcashel; and uncle of the present Earl of Kingston. His nephew, Lieut. Rich. Fitzgerald King, R.N. (1832), died Senior of the sloop, on the coast of Africa, in 1840.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 Aug. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. Wm. Browell, bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour, at first in the Channel, and afterwards in the West Indies, where, subsequently to the reduction of, he became Midshipman, in 1801, of the 74, Capt. Chas. Vinicombe Penrose. Quitting the latter ship in 1802, he was next, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 March, 1804, employed, on the Home station, in the sloop, Capt. Robt. Arlett, 24, Capt. Jonas Rose,  and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Stewart, and 74, Capt. Chas. John, Moore Mansfield. In the following April he joined the 74, Capts. Andrew Fitzherbert Evans and Jas. Newman Newman, with whom he served, again in the West Indies, until 1805. In Dec. of that year we find him appointed to the 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, on the Irish station. Being advanced, 15 Aug. 1806, to the command of the sloop, Capt. King was once more ordered to the West Indies, where, in Dec. 1807, he assisted at the reduction of the Danish islands. While on the same station he was removed, 29 July, 1808, to the 18, and was posted, 18 Jan. 1809, into the  frigate. His last appointment was, on 2 June in the latter year, to the 32; which frigate, after having been employed at Newfoundland and off Flushing, bore the flag of the Duke of Clarence when H.R.H. escorted Louis XVIII. to the French shore in April, 1814. Capt. King subsequently conveyed the Emperor, the King of Prussia, and the Duchess of Oldenburgh to Calais, on their return from England. He paid the off 14 Nov. 1814; and acquired his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

The Rear-Admiral married, 28 Nov. 1815, Caroline, second daughter of the late Most Rev. Euseby Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin, and has issue two sons and three daughters. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 KING. 

was born 12 Sept. 1793. He belongs to an old and very respectable family.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1806, as