John King (Archdeacon of Killala)

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John King was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [1]

The second son of Admiral Edward Durnford King, [2] he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [3] He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1790 to 1799; and Archdeacon of Killala from 1799 until his death in 1818. [4]

Notes

  1. "The Peerage Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland" Dod, C.R. p216
  2. [O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "King, Edward Durnford"  . A Naval Biographical Dictionary  . John Murray via Wikisource.
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses p469: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p87: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878


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