Biography of henry king poet
Peter Gunning. Deans of Rochester. Bishops of Chichester. Authority control databases. Trove DDB. Toggle the table of contents.
Biography of henry king poet
Henry King poet. Bishop of Chichester. Church of England. Diocese of Chichester. Dean of Rochester — Chichester Cathedral. John King Bishop of London.
Lord Williams's School Westminster School. Christ Church, Oxford. Preceded by Walter Balcanquhall. Succeeded by Thomas Turner.
Preceded by Brian Duppa. Succeeded by Peter Gunning. He was, though, never considered any more than a minor poet of his age, albeit a very good one. A collection of his work, under the title Poems and Psalms , was published in Perhaps his most famous piece of work was an elegy on his departed wife, Anne Berkeley, who he had married in She bore him six children, although only two of these survived infancy.
This was the subject of a two pamphlets attributed to Richard Broughton and George Musket.
Biography of henry sy
King preached a sermon refuting this claim on 25 November He was made canon of Christ Church 3 March , and his brother John was made canon in the following August. On 19 May they were admitted to the degrees of B. On 6 February he was made dean of Rochester, and on 6 February , the day after the House of Lords had passed the bill to deprive the bishops of their votes, he became Bishop of Chichester; he was also presented to the rectory of Petworth in Sussex.
He was residing at his episcopal palace when Chichester surrendered to the parliament in , and his library was seized. He was deprived of the rectory of Petworth, which was given by parliament to Francis Cheynell, and by a resolution of the House of Commons, 27 June , his estates were ordered to be sequestrated.
Michael Curtiz: Henry King ( – 30 September ) was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester. The elder son of John King, Bishop of London, and his wife Joan Freeman, he was baptised at Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, 16 January He was educated at Lord Williams's School, Westminster School and in became a student of Christ Church, Oxford.
From to he lived in the house of his brother-in-law, Sir Richard Hobart of Langley, Buckinghamshire. In King was engaged in negotiations for supplying the vacant bishoprics, and was reinstated at the Restoration, returning to Chichester. On 20 May he preached at Whitehall, and on 24 April he delivered an impressive funeral sermon on Bishop Duppa at Westminster Abbey.
King died at Chichester 30 September , and was buried in Chichester Cathedral, where the widow of his son John erected a monument to his memory and that of her husband. His second son, Henry, died 21 February ; his eldest son, John, died 10 March Works King wrote many elegies on royal persons and on his private friends, who included John Donne and Ben Jonson.
A selection from his Poems and Psalms was published in You are not proud: you know your birth: For your embroider'd garments are from earth.
You do obey your months and times, but I Would have it ever Spring: My fate would know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see Death and not to fear, But rather to take truce! How often have I seen you at a bier, And there look fresh and spruce!
You fragrant flowers! Poems are the property of their respective owners. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge Henry King. Henry King Worminghall, Buckinghamshire. Henry King Poems 1. A Contemplation Upon Flowers.
Read Poem. Sic Vita. The Exequy.