Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ernest Newcomen King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston (31 July 1848 – 13 January 1896), was an Irish peer and
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Early life and education
Henry Newcomen King was born 31 July 1848 to Anne Gore-Booth, wife of Robert King, 2nd Viscount Lorton and 6th Earl of Kingston. Lord Kingston- who by the mid-1830s had suffered a stroke and the effects of his heavy drinking, and was "almost entirely under the influence of his wife", whose "high-living" was disliked by his father, Viscount Lorton- publicly disowned the child, as since 1846 his wife had been the lover of "dubious and insolvent French nobleman" Vicomte Ernest Valentin de Satgé St. Jean. Lord Kingston's attempt to sue for divorce in 1850 failed due to his own extramarital affair, with his nursemaid and travelling companion Julie Imhoff, being established. Henry King's "legitimacy was confirmed (as it could not be disproved) at the probate court in Dublin in 1870", meaning he succeeded to the title of Earl of Kingston in 1871 at the death of the 7th Earl, but the family's "disastrously dispersed hereditary lands" did not come to him with the title, the Kings having been "driven to extraordinary lengths" to prevent the 6th Earl's estranged wife and her French lover from gaining possession of their property.
King was educated at
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in
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in the
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, he exhibited his
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collection of Great Britain at the London Philatelic Exhibition 1890 for which he was awarded a gold medal.Arthur Ronald Butler, The British Philatelic Federation Limited, 1990, page 19."British International Stamp Exhibitions" by H.R. Holmes in ''
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, King married Florence Margaret, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward King-Tenison, of
Kilronan Castle
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,
county Roscommon
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. She was his father's second cousin, both descending from Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston. After their marriage, his name was changed to Henry Newcomen King-Tenison by Royal Licence on 10 March 1883. The couple lived at Kilronan Castle, which he considerably enlarged in the 1880s. King-Tenison died at
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aged 47. He was succeeded as 10th Earl of Kingston by his son Henry Edwyn King-Tenison.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, pp. 1598-1599
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