John Gilbert King (1822 – 9 January 1901)
was an
Irish Conservative Party politician.
Family
He was the son of Henry King and Harriett, daughter of
John Lloyd, who had been a Member of the
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...
for
King's County before the
Act of Union. He inherited Ballylin House from his father in 1857 and, because he was unmarried with no children, this was passed to his nephew Henry Louis Mahon, son of Ross Mahon and Harriett King.
Political career
At the
1865 general election, he was elected to the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 memb ...
as one of the two
Members of Parliament (MPs) for
King's County. He stood down at the
next election, in 1868.
Other activities
He was a
Justice of the Peace and
High Sheriff of King's County
The High Sheriff of King's County was the British Crown's judicial representative in King's County (now County Offaly), Ireland, from 1556, when King's County was created, until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and repla ...
for 1852–53.
References
External links
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1822 births
1901 deaths
Irish Conservative Party MPs
High sheriffs of King's County
UK MPs 1865–1868
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for King's County constituencies (1801–1922)
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