Philip King (priest)

Philip King (1603–1667) was an English academic and churchman, Archdeacon of Lewes from 1660 until 1667.^[1]

Life

He was the fifth and youngest son of John King, the bishop of London. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1616, at age 13, and graduated B.A. in 1618. In 1623 he was M.A, and became Fellow of Exeter College. Having been public orator, he resigned his fellowship in 1629.^[2]

King became rector of St Botolph, Billingsgate by 1636. At the outbreak of the First English Civil War his living was sequestered, and he went to Oxford. There he graduated D.D. in 1645.^[2] He spent much of his time at Langley, Buckinghamshire, where one of his sisters was married to Sir Richard Hobart.^[3]

After the Restoration in 1660, he was made treasurer of the diocese of Chichester, and became a prebendary in St Paul's Cathedral. He was made archdeacon of Lewes on 11 October 1660, and held he post until his death on 4 March 1667, at Langley.^[2]

References

↑ ”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900
1 2 3 Henry King (1843). John Hannah, ed. Poems and Psalms. pp. xcv–xcvii. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
↑ Anthony à Wood; Philip Bliss (1815). Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To which are Added the Fasti, Or Annals of the Said University. Rivington. p. 1669. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Thomas Hook	Archdeacon of Lewes 1660–1667	Succeeded by Nathaniel Hardy

Diocese of Chichester

Chichester Cathedral The Palace, Chichester Diocesan Church House, Hove Area scheme (1984–2013)

Office holders	Martin Warner, Bishop of Chichester Mark Sowerby, Bishop suffragan of Horsham Richard Jackson, Bishop suffragan of Lewes AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough Stephen Waine, Dean of Chichester Douglas McKittrick, Archdeacon of Chichester Fiona Windsor, Archdeacon of Horsham Martin Lloyd Williams, Archdeacon of Brighton & Lewes Edward Bryant & Nick Cornell, jointly Acting Archdeacon of Hastings

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Hastings (1912–1975; merged back into Lewes archdeaconry)

Archdeacons of Lewes, of Hastings and of Lewes & Hastings

High Medieval	Jordan de Melburne Joceline Eustachius de Leveland Reginald de Wintonia William de Lughteburg Robert Passelewe Simon de Clympingham Henry Godfrey de Peckham Thomas de Berghstede

Late Medieval	Thomas Cobham John de Godele Hamelin de Godele John Geytentun Thomas de Codelowe Walter de Lyndrich William de Loughteburgh John Courdray Walter Forey Nicholas/Richard Stone John Wendover John Brampton Lewis Coychurch Thomas Hanwell William Skylton John Dogett John Plemth Simon Climping Thomas Oatley Richard Hill Edward Vaughan William Atwater William Cradock Oliver Pole Anthony Wayte Edward More

Early modern	John Sherry Richard Brisley Robert Taylor Edmund Weston Thomas Drant William Coell William Cotton John Mattock Richard Buckenham William Hutchinson Thomas Hook Philip King Nathaniel Hardy Toby Henshaw Joseph Sayer Richard Bowchier James Williamson Edmund Bateman Thomas D'Oyly John Courtail Matthias D'Oyly Edward Raynes Thomas Birch Julius Hare William Otter

Late modern	John Hannah Robert Sutton Theodore Churton (became Archdeacon of Hastings) Henry Southwell, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Hugh Hordern Francis Smythe Lloyd Morrell Peter Booth Max Godden (became Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings)

Hastings (1912–1975)	created from Lewes Theodore Churton (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Benedict Hoskyns Arthur Upcott Thomas Cook, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Arthur Alston Ernest Reid Guy Mayfield dissolved/merged to Lewes & Hastings

Lewes & Hastings	Max Godden (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Christopher Luxmoore Hugh Glaisyer Nicholas Reade Philip Jones renamed to Hastings

Hastings (2014–present)	Philip Jones (previously Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings) Stan Tomalin (Acting) Edward Bryant & Nick Cornell (Acting)

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