Thomas King (14 February 1833 – 20 November 1886) was a politician in colonial

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, Minister of Education from 1878 to 1881. King was born at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England on 14 February 1833. He was the son of William King who migrated to

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in 1852. He was for many years a member of the firm of Barrow & King, proprietors of the '' South Australian Advertiser'', ''Chronicle'', and ''Express''. King represented Sturt in the

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from 10 April 1876 to 7 April 1881, and from 13 November 1882 to 6 July 1885, and was Minister of Education in the William Morgan Ministry from 7 October 1878 to 10 March 1881. Having come to England as one of the South Australian commissioners to the

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held at

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in 1886, he died at Bayswater, England, on 20 November of that year.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Thomas 1833 births 1886 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Politicians from Adelaide 19th-century Australian politicians

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