Lucas White King

Sir Lucas White King CSI FSA (8 September 1856 – 23 August 1925) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and academic, Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College, Dublin from 1905 to 1922.

Early life

He was born in Madras, British India on 8 September 1856, the eldest son of the Deputy Surgeon-General Henry King, also the Principal of the Medical School in Madras.[1]

He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.[2][3]

Career

In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to Commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.[1][3]

In 1905, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.[2][1]

He was knighted in 1919.[1]

Personal life

He married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866-1945), eldest daughter of Alfred and Geraldine Mary Harmsworth, and sister of the mass-circulation newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.

They had children:

  • Elinor Mary Kathleen King
  • Sheila Geraldine King
  • Lucas Henry St. Aubyn King
  • Enid Madeleine King, married Herbert Bland Stokes, youngest son of Sir Gabriel Stokes
  • Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation, and a director at the Bank of England
  • Alfred Curzon White King
  • Geraldine Sophie White King
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References
  1. "Sir Lucas White King, LL.D., C.S.I., F.S.A. | Cambridge Core". Cambridge.org. 2011-03-01. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00169655. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  2. King, Lucas White. The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915). Retrieved 2016-10-10 – via Wikisource.
  3. Dictionary of Indian Biography. Ardent Media. p. 237. GGKEY:BDL52T227UN.
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