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 Geological Society of Ireland, was issued separately in 1889.

Kinahan was of strong and massive build; he died at his residence, Woodlands, Clontarf, Dublin, on 5 Dec. 1908, being buried in the Protestant churchyard at Ovoca, co. Wicklow. He married Harriet Ann, daughter of Capt. Samuel Gerrard, 3rd King's own dragoon guards, and had by her three sons and five daughters.

Kinahan's smaller works are: 1. (With Maxwell Henry Close [q. v. Suppl. II]) 'The General Glaciation of Iar-Connaught,' 1872. 2. 'Handy-book of Rock-names,' 1873. 3. 'Valleys and their Relation to Fissures, Fractures, and Faults,' 1875. 4. (With A. McHenry) 'Reclamation of Waste Lands in Ireland,' 1882. 5. 'Superficial and Agricultural Geology, Ireland, 2 pts. 1908.

 KINCAIRNEY,. [See (1828-1909), judge of court of session.]

 KING, EDWARD (1829–1910), bishop of Lincoln, born on 29 Dec. 1829 at 8 St. James's Place, Westminster, was third child and second son in a family of five boys and five girls of Walker King (1798–1859), rector of Stone, Kent, and canon and arch-deacon of Rochester, who married in 1823 Anne (d. 1883), daughter of William Heberden the younger [q. v.]. Edward King's grandfather. Walker King (1761-1827), was bishop of Rochester.

After some teaching from his father at Stone, King became a daily pupil of the curate there, John Day; and when Day became incumbent of Ellesmere, Edward went with him. He showed as a boy a strong feeling for religion, but at the same time was fond of dancing, fishing, and swimming, and was an excellent horseman. Through life his chief recreation was foreign travel, chiefly in Switzerland and Italy.

In February 1848 King matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford. Edward Hawkins [q. v.] was provost. At 'collections'—the formal review of work and conduct—at the end of King's first term, Hawkins made the characteristic comment on King's habits of life 'that even too regular attendance at chapel may degenerate into formalism.' King had been brought up in a school of old-fashioned churchmanship, but the influences of the Tractarian movement had already reached him; and at Oxford they were deepened by his intercourse with Charles Harriott [q. v.], fellow and tutor of Oriel. As an undergraduate he observed the extreme and methodical strictness in daily life and devotion, including fasting and abstinence, which Tractarianism inculcated. His punctilious rule of attending afternoon chapel at 4.30 'made boating difficult and cricket quite impossible,' but he managed to spend some time on the river.

King did not read for honours; but under the able tuition of his college he was well grounded in Plato and Aristotle. He was more an Aristotelian than a Platonist, and to the end of his life he used 'The Ethics' as a text-book on which he grounded his social and moral teaching. In early life he completely mastered Italian by reading it with an invalid sister, and Dante was the author from whom he most frequently quoted. He graduated B.A. in 1851, and in the interval between his degree and his ordination he acted as private tutor to Lord Lothian's brothers, and made a journey to Palestine.

King, who always looked forward to holy orders as his appointed sphere in life, received in 1854 the offer of a curacy from Edward Elton, vicar of Wheatley, near Cuddesdon, in Oxfordshire. He was ordained both deacon (11 June 1854) and priest (3 June 1855) by Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford. Wheatley was at that time a rough and lawless village, and King's zeal in pastoral work powerfully reinforced Elton's efforts at moral reformation. In dealing with the boy's and youths of the parish he first manifested that remarkable power of influencing young men which was the special characteristic of his later ministry.

In 1858 Bishop Wilberforce, alarmed by the outcry against alleged romanising tendencies in the theological college at Cuddesdon, which he had founded in 1853, changed the staff, and bestowed the chaplaincy on King. It was by no means a welcome change. Next spring the bishop forced the vice-principal, Henry Parry Liddon [q. v.], to resign, and begged King to succeed him. King, however, declined, and remained chaplain till, at the beginning of 1863, on the death of the Rev. H. H. Swinny, the bishop made him principal of the college and vicar of Cuddesdon. As vicar of the parish he had fuller scope for pastoral work, and as principal of the college he developed an unique power of winning the confidence and 