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owners/00026155 Höhme, Gottfried

King, James

Besitzer Id00026155
EntitätstypPerson
GeschlechtMännlich
Biographische Angaben1750-1784
weitere InformationKing, James, naval officer, was the second son of James King (1714–1795), curate of Clitheroe (afterwards dean of Raphoe), and
his wife, Anne, née Walker (1713–1794). When he was twelve years old, he entered the navy under the patronage of his kinsman, Captain William Norton, serving under him in the Assistance. He afterwards served in the Guernsey (Captain James Chads) under
Commodore Hugh Palliser on the Newfoundland station. He was then granted leave to go abroad and spent some time in Paris, devoting himself principally to scientific study; on his return he settled at Oxford with his brother Walker, then a fellow of Corpus Christi College recommended him as a competent astronomer to accompany James Cook's third voyage. At the time of Cook's death at Hawaii (14 February 1779) King was on shore in charge of the observatory. In 1781 King was appointed to the frigate Crocodile and towards the end of the year he was moved to the Resistance (40 guns), in which he went out to the West Indies in charge of a convoy of 500 merchant ships. King's constitution was never strong, and he came back to England with his health impaired. It was under this disadvantage that he assisted in preparing Cook's journal of the third voyage for the press, and wrote the narrative of the final part of the voyage, which formed the third volume. King's astronomical observations, together with those of Cook and William Bayly, were published by order of the commissioners of longitude in 1782; for this work he was elected FRS. In January 1780 he was granted the degree of LLD by diploma at Trinity College, Dublin, possibly in recognition of a gift of ‘curiosities’ gathered during Cook's third voyage. In 1783 the state of his health compelled him to go to Nice, where he died, unmarried, of tuberculosis on 16 November 1784.

BIBLIOGR: 'King, James (bap. 1750, d. 1784)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, 28 May 2015 (accessed 22 July 2019).
(Created by Valentina Eberle, 22 July 2019)
Weitere Identifierhttps://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01922149

Aktivität

Beginn (Jahr)1750
Ende (Jahr)1784
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
CharakterisierungKeine Characterisierung / Laie
Letzte Änderung2019-07-24 12:24:30

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King, James

Besitzer Id00026155
EntitätstypPerson
GeschlechtMännlich
Biographische Angaben1750-1784
weitere InformationKing, James, naval officer, was the second son of James King (1714–1795), curate of Clitheroe (afterwards dean of Raphoe), and
his wife, Anne, née Walker (1713–1794). When he was twelve years old, he entered the navy under the patronage of his kinsman, Captain William Norton, serving under him in the Assistance. He afterwards served in the Guernsey (Captain James Chads) under
Commodore Hugh Palliser on the Newfoundland station. He was then granted leave to go abroad and spent some time in Paris, devoting himself principally to scientific study; on his return he settled at Oxford with his brother Walker, then a fellow of Corpus Christi College recommended him as a competent astronomer to accompany James Cook's third voyage. At the time of Cook's death at Hawaii (14 February 1779) King was on shore in charge of the observatory. In 1781 King was appointed to the frigate Crocodile and towards the end of the year he was moved to the Resistance (40 guns), in which he went out to the West Indies in charge of a convoy of 500 merchant ships. King's constitution was never strong, and he came back to England with his health impaired. It was under this disadvantage that he assisted in preparing Cook's journal of the third voyage for the press, and wrote the narrative of the final part of the voyage, which formed the third volume. King's astronomical observations, together with those of Cook and William Bayly, were published by order of the commissioners of longitude in 1782; for this work he was elected FRS. In January 1780 he was granted the degree of LLD by diploma at Trinity College, Dublin, possibly in recognition of a gift of ‘curiosities’ gathered during Cook's third voyage. In 1783 the state of his health compelled him to go to Nice, where he died, unmarried, of tuberculosis on 16 November 1784.

BIBLIOGR: 'King, James (bap. 1750, d. 1784)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, 28 May 2015 (accessed 22 July 2019).
(Created by Valentina Eberle, 22 July 2019)
Weitere Identifierhttps://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01922149

Aktivität

Beginn (Jahr)1750
Ende (Jahr)1784
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
CharakterisierungKeine Characterisierung / Laie
Letzte Änderung2019-07-24 12:24:30
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