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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
“Ne'er from the lap of luxury and ease
Shall spring the hardy warrior of the seas–
A toilsome youth the mariner must form,
Nurs'd on the wave and cradl'd in the storm.”
Pye.It has been observed, that, “of all public characters, he justly claims the first honours, and the first rank, in biography, who by the diligent and successful exertion of his talents, most effectually promotes the public good.” In scarcely any instance could this remark apply with more correctness, than to the distinguished subject of the present memoir, who, by his professional services, through a long, very long series of years, has merited and obtained the honourable remuneration which he enjoys.
Sir Richard King, Bart. is descended from a respectable family, of Bromley, in Kent, but was born in Hampshire, in, the month of August, 1730.
Of this brave Officer, it may literally be said, that he was
“Nurs'd on the wave, and cradl'd in the storm;”
for, before he was eight years old, he entered on the toils of that service, of which he has since become a splendid ornament. In 1738, he went to sea with his maternal uncle, the late Commodore Curtis Barnet, who died in 1746, Commander in Chief on the East India station. Under the immediate eye of this gallant Commander, Mr. King first served, while he was employed in the Mediterranean, and afterwards, in the year 1744, accompanied him to the East Indies.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 433 - 511Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1805