Seymour King
Sir Henry Seymour King, 1st Baronet
mountaineer and Conservative
politician.
King was born at Brighton, the son of Henry Samuel King. He was educated at
Indian Mutiny.[3] King's brother in law Edward Jenkins, a former MP for Dundee, became editor of these in 1886.[4]
King was an adventurous mountaineer. He was the first to reach the summits of
Royal Geographic Society.[6]
He lived in the Manor House,
Mayor of Kensington in 1900 and provided a large interest free loan for the purchase of slum properties in North Kensington so that they could be rebuilt and refurbished.[9] He retained his parliamentary seat until December 1910, when he was unseated on petition on 1 June 1911 for bribing constituents.[10]
King became a director of
King's Birthday Honours.[14] He was also a member of the Commission of Lieutenancy for the City of London.[15]
Family
Henry Seymour King married Julia Mary Jenkins in Montreal, 21 October 1875. She was the daughter of Rev. John Jenkins, D.D., of Montreal, and his wife, Harriette, daughter of the late George Shepstone, Esquire, of Clifton, England. Lady King was Mayoress, for two years, of the
Royal Borough of Kensington
. During this period, she was president of the Queen's Jubilee
Nurses' Endowment Fund, which raised the largest sum contributed by any borough in London, except the city, for that purpose. She was President of the Primrose League at Hull. She accompanied her husband in mountaineering expeditions in Switzerland. She was a keen yachtswoman, who regularly sailed with her husband in their yacht Glory. The couple lived at 25 Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington, London, England.[16]
References
- ^ List of Carthusians
- ^ Banking History King & Co
- ^ Chandrika Kaul Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India 1880-1922, Manchester University Press 2003
- ^ Quebec History John Edward Jenkins
- ^ Database of first mountaineers to reach summits
- ^ "King, Sir Henry Seymour, K.C.I.E." The Bartlett Maritime Research Centre. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- ^ "No. 25673". The London Gazette. 15 February 1887. p. 787.
- ^ "No. 26318". The London Gazette. 19 August 1892. p. 4743.
- ^ Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Lady King, wife of the Mayor, performing the opening ceremony in Kenley Street, 1904
- ^ Hansard, 14 June 1911, "Kingston upon Hull Central Division"
- ^ Banking History King & Co
- ^ Cox and King's Brochure[permanent dead link]
- ^ Dykstra & Partners Naval Architects - Schooner Adela
- ^ "No. 33831". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1932. p. 3568.
- ^ "No. 34024". The London Gazette. 16 February 1934. p. 1076.
- ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 187.
