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
editHe 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
editIn 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 (the Chair of Arabic, Persian and Hindustani) at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.[2][1]
Personal life
editHe married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866-1945), eldest daughter of Alfred Harmsworth and his wife, Geraldine, and sister of newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
They had issue:
- 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
edit- ^ a b c d "Sir Lucas White King, LL.D., C.S.I., F.S.A. | Cambridge Core". Cambridge.org. 1 March 2011. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00169655. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ a b Rao, C. Hayavadana, ed. (1915). . . Vol. 12.4. Madras: Pillar & Co. pp. 228–229.
- ^ a b Dictionary of Indian Biography. Ardent Media. 1971. p. 237. GGKEY:BDL52T227UN.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. J". National Library of Ireland. p. 197. Retrieved 17 November 2022.