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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.
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Early life
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.
He was educated at Ennis College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received BA and LLB degrees in 1878.
Career
In 1878, he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to Commissioner of the Rawalpindi Division, until his retirement in 1905.
In 1905, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages at Dublin University, a post he held until 1922 when he resigned and went to live in London.
He was knighted in 1919.
Personal life
He married Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866-1945), the eldest daughter of the barrister Alfred Harmsworth.
They had children: