Lucas White King
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Sir Lucas White King {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|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.{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/sir-lucas-white-king-lld-csi-fsa/EA07CBD5424B9CBA27BA43CB9CDE3055 |title=Sir Lucas White King, LL.D., C.S.I., F.S.A. | Cambridge Core |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00169655 |website=Cambridge.org |date=2011-03-01 |access-date=2016-10-10|doi-access=free }}
He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.{{cite IBD1915|wstitle= King, Lucas White |volume= 12.4 |pages= 228-229 |year=1915|short=}} {{cite book|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|year = 1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&pg=PA237|publisher=Ardent Media|page=237|id=GGKEY:BDL52T227UN}}
Career
In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.
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.
He was knighted in 1919.
Personal life
He 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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Category:Academics of Trinity College Dublin
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Category:Companions of the Order of the Star of India
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