Lucas White King

Sir Lucas White King CSI FSA (8 September 1856 – 23 August 1925) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and academic, Professor of Oriental Languages at Trinity College, Dublin from 1905 to 1922.

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.^[1]

He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.^{[2] [3]}

In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.^[1][3]

In 1905, he was appointed professor of Oriental languages (the Chair of Arabic, Persian and Hindustani) at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.^[2][1]

He was knighted in 1919.^[1]

He married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866-1945), eldest daughter of Alfred Harmsworth and his wife, Geraldine, and sister of newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.

They had issue:

• Elinor Mary Kathleen King
• Sheila Geraldine King
• Lucas Henry St. Aubyn King
• Enid Madeleine King, married Herbert Bland Stokes, youngest son of Sir Gabriel Stokes
• Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation, and a director at the Bank of England
• Alfred Curzon White King
• Geraldine Sophie White King