John King (c. 1655 – 4 August 1737) was an important English clergyman, the son of Thomas King. He was the younger brother of Thomas King (died 1725), soldier and MP. He matriculated at

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on 4 July 1678, receiving his B.A. in 1682, his M.A. in 1685, and his B.D. and

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in 1704. He then became the

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, Hampshire. From the mid-1690s, he was Preacher at the

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, and, upon the death of

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in 1715, King was made Master of Charterhouse. A devout man who carried a copy of Thomas à Kempis's '' Imitation of Christ'' with him everywhere, King had a formative influence on

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, who was a gownboy at the Charterhouse School 1714–1720. King was made Archdeacon of Colchester in 1722, and a Canon of Bristol in 1728.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:King, John (Clergyman) 1655 births 1737 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 18th-century English Anglican priests People educated at Charterhouse School Archdeacons of Colchester