John Edward King (10 July 1858 – 21 March 1939) was an author, Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford, High Master of Manchester Grammar School, Headmaster of Bedford School, and Headmaster of Clifton College.Joseph Foster, Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 2 volumes, 1893, vol.1, p.246
Biography
Born in Ash, South Somerset, on 10 July 1858, John Edward King was educated at Clifton College"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p30: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948 and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was elected as a Fellow in 1882. He was assistant master at St Paul's School, between 1884 and 1887, tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford, between 1887 and 1891, high master of Manchester Grammar School, between 1891 and 1903. He was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 1 December1891,Complete List of the Members & Officers of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society. From its institution on February 28th 1781 to April, 1896. and become headmaster of Bedford School, between 1903 and 1910, and headmaster of Clifton College, between 1910 and 1923.
John Edward King died in Chilton Polden, Somerset, on 21 March 1939.Obituary, The Ousel, Vol.XLIII, No.703, 1 April 1939, pp.33–34
Publications
The Principles of Sound and Inflexion, as Illustrated in the Greek and Latin Languages, Oxford University Press, 1888 Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford University Press, 1890 Cicero, Tusculans, Loeb Classical Library, 1927 Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 1930 Inventory of Parochial Documents in the Diocese of Bath and Wells and the County of Somerset, 1938
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