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Henry King

(1592-1669) Poet, son of a Bishop of London, was educated at Westminster School and Oxford. e entered the Church, and rose in 1642 to be Bishop of Chichester. The following year he was deprived, but was reinstated at the Restoration. He wrote many elegies on Royal persons and on his private friends, who included Donne and Ben Jonson. A selection from his Poems and Psalms was puborn in 1843.

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