^ "KING, Peter (c.1669-1734), of the Middle Temple, London and Ockham, Surr".His earlier work An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity and Worship of the Primitive Church that flourished within the first Three Hundred Years after Christ was published 1691 and was quoted by John Wesley in many of his correspondences and is seen as influencing many of his view on the order of the Church. Lord King published in 1702 a History of the Apostles' Creed (Leipzig, 1706 Basel, 1750) which went through several editions and was also translated into Latin. Another descendant Peter John Locke King was a Member of Parliament for Surrey from 1847 to 1849 and won some fame as an advocate of reform, being responsible for the passing of the Real Estate Charges Act 1854, and for the repeal of a large number of obsolete laws. In 1835 his great-great-grandson William King (1805–1893), married Ada Byron, the only daughter of Lord Byron and was later created Earl of Lovelace. Each of their sons succeeded in turn as Lord King, Baron of Ockham.Īfter his death in 1734, the widowed Lady King lived in Grosvenor Square until her death in 1767. They had six children: two daughters and four sons. He was also the author of the Act ( Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730) by virtue of which English superseded Latin as the language of the courts. Nevertheless, he left his mark on English law by establishing the principles that a will of immovable property is governed by the lex loci rei sitae, and that where a husband had a legal right to the personal estate of his wife, which must be asserted by a suit in equity, the court would not help him unless he made a provision out of the property for the wife, if she required it. Lord King as chancellor failed to sustain the reputation which he had acquired at the common law bar. He died at Ockham, Surrey, on 22 July 1734. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 14 November 1728. In June of the same year he was made Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, holding office until compelled by a paralytic stroke to resign in 1733. Made a Serjeant-at-Law, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1714 to 1725, when he was raised to the peerage as a Lord Justice and Speaker of the House of Lords. He was appointed recorder of Glastonbury in 1705 and recorder of London in 1708. In 1700 he was returned to Parliament of England as the member for Bere Alston in Devon, holding the seat until 1715. He entered the Middle Temple in 1694 and was called to the bar in 1698. This treatise engaged the interest of his cousin, John Locke, the philosopher, by whose advice his father sent him to the Leiden University, where he stayed for nearly three years. In his youth he was interested in early church history, and published anonymously in 1691 An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity and Worship of the Primitive Church that flourished within the first Three Hundred Years after Christ. King was born in Exeter in 1669, and educated at Exeter Grammar School. 1669 – 22 July 1734), commonly referred to as Lord King, was an English lawyer and politician, who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
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