| 词条 | Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston |
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Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston (1754 – 17 April 1799) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was styled Viscount Kingsborough between 1768 and 1797. BiographyHe was the son of Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston and Jane Caulfeild. From 1767 to 1768 he was educated at Eton College. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Boyle from 1776 to 1783, and for Cork County between 1783 and 1797, and served as a Governor of County Cork in 1789.[1] In 1797 he succeeded to his father's titles and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. Between 1797 and his death he was Custos Rotulorum of Roscommon. On 18 May 1798 he was tried by his peers in the Irish House of Lords after allegedly murdering Colonel Henry Gerald FitzGerald. FitzGerald was a married man who eloped with King's daughter. With public sympathy on King's side and with considerable publicity he was tried by his peers. He was acquitted as after three summonses no witnesses came forward. After a short conferee the Lords Temporal returned to the House of Commons and delivered the verdict 'not guilty'. The Lord Chancellor pronounced the verdict, broke his wand and dismissed the assembly.[2][3] FamilyHe married Caroline FitzGerald, daughter of Richard FitzGerald and Margaret King, on 5 December 1769. Together they had nine children: {{fact|date=March 2017}}
A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) by William Richard O'Byrne states that Robert King had a sixth son, James William, who became a rear-admiral in 1846. He married Caroline Cleaver, daughter of the Archbishop of Dublin[4]; one of their daughters was the prominent evangelist Catherine King Pennefather. References1. ^E. M. Johnston-Liik, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jitdluWSybIC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Alexander+Gradon+naas+mp&source=bl&ots=OWYBWe6i_R&sig=1IBtQjrwGSvhBFPYDM5_MrQv4Zg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix8ZzOoYnLAhVL2BoKHSlICEcQ6AEIMjAD#v=snippet&q=king&f=false MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800] (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.100 (Retrieved 6 October 2016). {{s-start}}{{s-par|ie}}{{s-bef2. ^{{Cite journal |last=Lyall |first=Andrew |title=The Irish House of Lords as a Judicial Body, 1783-1800 |url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/irishjur26&collection=journals&index=&id=320 |journal=Irish Jurist |volume=28 |pages=314-360 |jstor=44026395}} 3. ^{{cite book |last1=Johnston-Liik |first1=Mary Edith |title=history of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 Volume I |date=2002 |publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation |location=Belfast |isbn=190368871-X |page=328 |accessdate=4 April 2019}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary/King,_James_William|website=Wikisource|accessdate=8 August 2017}} | before=Richard Fitzgerald | before2=Henry King }}{{s-ttl |title=Member of Parliament for Boyle |years=1776–1783 | with = Henry King }}{{s-aft |after=Peter Metge |after2=Henry King }}{{s-bef | before = Richard Townsend | before2 = James Bernard }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Cork County | years = 1783–1797 | with = James Bernard (1783–1791) | with2 = Abraham Morris (1791–1797) | with3 = Viscount Boyle (1797) }}{{s-aft | after = Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald | after2 = Viscount Boyle }}{{s-reg|ie}}{{s-bef| before = Edward King }}{{s-ttl| title = Earl of Kingston | years = 1797–1799 }}{{s-aft| after = George King }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kingston, Robert King, 2nd Earl of}} 12 : 1754 births|1799 deaths|Anglo-Irish people|Earls in the Peerage of Ireland|Irish MPs 1776–83|Irish MPs 1783–90|Irish MPs 1790–97|King family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy)|Members of the Irish House of Lords|People educated at Eton College|Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies|Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Roscommon constituencies |
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