Peter King

From Philosopedia

King, Peter (1776—1833)

A financier and a Whig member of the House of Lords, King voted for Catholic Emancipation and opposed the suggestion of a grant to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

“Of late years,” reported Gentleman’s Magazine in its obituary notice (1833),

• Lord King has chiefly signalized himself as the bitter enemy of the Church, and particularly of the Episcopal Bench.

King, the seventh Baron King, was a deist.

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