Sir Lucas White King (8 September 1856 – 23 August 1925) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and academic, Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College, Dublin from 1905 to 1922.
He was born in Madras, British India on 8 September 1856, the eldest son of the Deputy Surgeon-General Henry King, also the Principal of the Medical School in Madras.[1]
He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.[2] [3]
In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.[1]
In 1905, he was appointed professor of Oriental languages (the Chair of Arabic, Persian and Hindustani) at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.[2] [1]
He married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866-1945), eldest daughter of Alfred Harmsworth and his wife, Geraldine, and sister of newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
They had issue:
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