Authorised form of name | King; Peter (1669 - 1734); 1st Baron King of Ockham |
Dates | 1669 - 1734 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Exeter, Devon, England |
Date of birth | 1669 |
Place of death | His seat at Ockham, Surrey |
Date of death | 22 July 1734 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: The parish church at Ockham, Surrey |
Occupation | Barrister |
Activity | Education: Nonconformist Academy kept by Joseph Hallett at Exeter; apprenticed to his father; Leyden; Middle Temple (admitted 1694) Career: Brought up as a Presbyterian, he published a book on the early Church (1691), which impressed John Locke, who persuaded his father to send him to Leyden; called to the Bar (1698); MP for Beeralston (1701-1714); Recorder of Glastonbury (1705); Recorder of London (1708-1715); Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1714-1725); Privy Councillor (1715); Speaker of the House of Lords (1725); Lord High Steward at the trial of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712); Lord Chancellor (1725-1733), he was the first Lord Chancellor to be paid (£1200 a year) rather than receive profits from the sale of offices; author of the Act which substituted English for Latin as the language for legal records; one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1725, 1727); Governor of the Charterhouse; died of paralysis Honours: Kt 1708; Baron 1725
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 14/11/1728 |
Proposer | John Machin |
Relationships | Son of Jerome King, Grocer, of Exeter, Devon, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Peter Locke of Somerset and cousin of John Locke (FRS 1668); married Anne, daughter of Richard Says of Boverton Court, Glamorgan; father of John King, 2nd Baron King of Ockham. |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; MT References: Gentleman's Magazine (1734), p391 |
Code | NA8400 |