John King (Archdeacon of Killala)

John King was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[1]

The second son of Admiral Edward Durnford King,^[2] he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.^[3] He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1790 to 1799; and Archdeacon of Killala from 1799 until his death in 1818.^[4]

Notes

1. "The Peerage Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland" Dod, C.R. p216
2. [O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "King, Edward Durnford" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
3. "Alumni Dublinenses p469: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p87: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878