Richard King (priest)

Richard George Salmon King (1871-23 October 1958^[1]) was the Dean of Derry from 1921 to 1946.

King was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1895.^[2] He was a curate at Mullingar and then Holloway before becoming the rector of Drumachose in 1904^[3] a post he held until his appointment to the deanery.^[4]

King was an ardent Unionist.^[5]

References

1. ↑ "Very Rev. R. G. S. King", The Times, 28 October 1958, p. 14.
2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1929
3. ↑ National Archive of Ireland
4. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
5. ↑ British Library