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 352 KING. years. His learning was immense; so much so, that we are told “there were few branches of learning, from the alphabet to the oriental languages, but what he was acquainted with.” The following inscription is fixed in gold letters over one of the hall doors, in Oxford University:- “Reverendus Dr. Johannes Keogh, magnus Hibernicus solvebat talem questionem tali die” for answering a mathematical problem, sent from Paris, which could not be resolved by any other person in Great Britain. He was the author of a Hebrew Lexicon, a Latin Grammar, a Greek Grammar, and Demonstration of the Trinity, in Latin verse, which latter was shewn to Sir Isaac Newton, who highly approved of i t. Dr. Keogh married the daughter o f Dr. Clopton, o f Stratford o n Avon, b y whom h e had twenty-one children, six only o f which survived him. The time o f his decease we are unacquainted with. DR. WILLIAM KING, This learned prelate, who distinguished himself greatly a s a firm supporter o f what was called the Protestant interest, was born a t Antrim, May 1, 1650. He was educated a t the grammar school o f Dungannon, which h e quitted a t the age o f seventeen, for Trinity College, where h e regularly took his degrees i n arts. I n 1676, Parker, Archbishop o f Tuam, appointed him his chaplain, and presented him t o a prebend, and afterwards t o the precentorship o f that cathedral. On the translation o f his patron t o Dublin, h e was promoted t o the chancellorship o f St. Patrick's, and consequently t o the care o f the large and populous parish o f St. Warburgh. Soon after the accession o f James the Second, an oppor tunity offered for displaying his zeal i n the Protestant cause. Peter Manby, Dean o f Derry, having recanted 1