Walker King (born
Marylebone
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An ancient parish and latterly a metropo ...
24 May 1798 – died
Stone, Kent
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20 March 1859) was
Archdeacon of Rochester
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from 6 July 1827 until his death.
The son of
Walker King, Bishop of Rochester, he was educated at
Oriel College, Oxford
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and served as Vicar of
Holy Trinity Church, Dartford
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of
Stone, Kent
Stone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford, is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, about 3 km east of Dartford and 27 kilometres from central London. It lies on the south bank of the River Thames. The A226 road ...
.
His son was
Bishop of Lincoln
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The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire and the unitary authority areas of Nort ...
.
[''Edward King, Sixtieth Bishop of Lincoln: A Memoir'' G. W. E. Russell, London, ]Longmans
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, 1912
References
1798 births
1859 deaths
People educated at Dulwich College
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Rochester
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