John King was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."The Peerage Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland" Dod, C.R. p216
The second son of Admiral Edward Durnford King,[ he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses p469: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was Vicar general of the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1790 to 1799; and Archdeacon of Killala from 1799 until his death in 1818."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p87: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
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