Family and Education
b. 3 Aug. 1619, s. of Ralph King of London and Priscilla Babham. educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, 1633-6; St John’s, Oxf. 30 June 1637, fell. c.1637-47 (in London from 1643),Merchant Taylors’ Sch. Regs.; Al. Ox. LLD bef. May 1659.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 516. d. c. 1666.HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 101.
Offices Held

Central: clerk to cttee. of Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London July 1643-c.1644.SP16/539/2, ff. 68, 73.

Civic: kpr. of the stores, Londonderry by Sept. 1646-Jan. 1647;CSP Ire. 1633–47, pp. 562, 598. collector of customs 22 Jan. 1647–8;CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 598. treas. c.1648–?56;SP16/539/4, f. 201; SP28/67, f. 279; SP28/77, f. 406. mayor bef. Aug. 1654;C219/44, unfol. alderman, 24 Mar. 1657–d.;The Bishopric of Derry ed. T.W. Moody and J.G. Simms (2 vols. Dublin, 1968), i. 281. recorder by 1665–d.CSP Ire. 1633–5, p. 571. Freeman, Coleraine 7 Aug. 1654.Acts of Corporation of Coleraine ed. B. McGrath (Dublin, 2017), 247.

Irish: commr. revenue, Londonderry c.1652;Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 292. assessment, cos. Londonderry, Tyrone, Donegal 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (Dublin, 1654, 1655). leasing commonwealth land, Dec. 1655- aft. Jan. 1658;Ire. under the Commomwealth, ii. 552, 665; Lansdowne 823, f. 11. forfeited lands, cos. Tyrone and Londonderry c.1656;NLI, MS 758, f. 98. security of protector, Ireland Sept. 1656.A. and O. Prothonotary, Dublin c.1657–8.C. Kenny, King’s Inn and the Kingdom of Ireland (Dublin, 1992), 154. Commr. settling Adventurers’ disputes, Jan. 1658.Ire. under the Commonwealth, ii. 667. Judge-adv. Jan. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 148. Commr. poll money, cos. Dublin, Antrim, Tyrone 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661; co. Londonderry 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 620, 626–7, 639, 645–6. Sub-commr. for implementing act of settlement, 4 Sept. 1661.NAI, Lodge’s MSS, 1.A.53.55, f. 132. Member, King’s Inn, Dublin Apr. 1665.Kenny, King’s Inn, 154.

: of Londonderry and Dublin.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

KING, Ralph (1619-c.66), of Londonderry and Dublin.

Will
Estates
granted house and 500 acres in co. Londonderry, 1653; allocated land from marquess of Antrim’s estate, Ulster, 1663, but withdrawn when proceedings against that peer dropped.Eg. 1762, f. 207v; CSP Ire. 1633-5, p. 339.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Skinner Row, par. of St Nicholas, Dublin c.1659.Irish Census, 1659, 363.
Religion
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