Lucas White King


Sir Lucas White King was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and academic, Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College, Dublin from 1905 to 1922.

Early life

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.
He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.

Career

In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to Commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.
In 1905, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.
He was knighted in 1919.

Personal life

He married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth, eldest daughter of the barrister Alfred Harmsworth, and sister of the mass-circulation newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
They had children: