The King, later Duckworth-King Baronetcy, of Bellevue in the County of Kent, was a title in the

Baronetage of Great Britain Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

. It was created on 18 July 1792 for the naval officer and colonial governor Richard King. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He was also a naval commander and fought at the

Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...

. The fourth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Duckworth in 1888. The title became extinct on the death of the seventh Baronet in 1972.

King, later Duckworth-King baronets, of Bellevue (1792)

Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet Admiral Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet (10 August 1730 – 7 November 1806) was a British naval officer and colonial governor. Naval career King was born in Gosport, the son of Curtis King and Mary Barnett. He joined the Royal Navy in 1738 an ...

(1730–1806) *

Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet Vice Admiral Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet KCB (28 November 1774 – 5 August 1834) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, who fought with distinction at the battle of Trafalgar despite being amongs ...

(1774–1834) *Sir Richard Duckworth King, 3rd Baronet (1804–1887) *Sir George St Vincent Duckworth-King, 4th Baronet (1809–1891) *Sir Dudley Gordon Alan Duckworth-King, 5th Baronet (1851–1909) *Sir George Henry James Duckworth-King, 6th Baronet (1891–1952) *Sir John Richard Duckworth-King, 7th Baronet (1899–1972)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duckworth-King Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain