James King King | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Herefordshire |
Term Start: | 19 July 1852 |
Term End: | 23 November 1868 |
Alongside: | Joseph Bailey and Michael Biddulph (1865–1868) Humphrey Francis St John-Mildmay (1859–1865) Montagu Graham (1858–1865) Geers Cotterell (1857–1858) Charles Bateman-Hanbury and Thomas William Booker-Blakemore (1852–1857) |
Predecessor: | Francis Wegg-Prosser George Cornewall Lewis Thomas William Booker-Blakemore |
Successor: | Herbert Croft Joseph Bailey Michael Biddulph |
Birth Date: | 6 November 1806 |
Birth Place: | Weybridge, Surrey, England |
Alma Mater: | Balliol College, Oxford |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | James Simpkinson King Emma Vaux |
Children: | Ten |
James King King (6 November 1806 – 17 June 1881)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
King King was the eldest son of James Simpkinson King (1767–1842) and Emma, daughter of Edward Vaux. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1829. In 1835, he married Mary Cochrane Mackenzie, daughter of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie. She was a sister of Colin MacKenzie. Together they had three sons and seven daughters.[2]
He was elected MP for Herefordshire in 1852 and held the seat until 1868.[3]
King King was also a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy Lieutenant and, in 1845, High Sheriff of Herefordshire.[4] His family seat was Stanton Park at Staunton on Arrow, where he was a major landowner and lord of the manor.[5] [6]