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Early life

Captain King was born in [[Cliterville]], Lancashire, the son of the Reverend James King, who was at that time curate of St Mary Magdalene, Clitheroe. According to the parish registers young James King was baptised on 13 July 1750, presumably shortly after his birth. At an early age King entered Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, where he remained until he was 12 years old. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... A parish register is a book, normally kept in a parish church, in which details of baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded. ... is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... The Main School site of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. ...

The Navy

King entered the navy on 19th November 1762 (not unusual in those days for someone so young) under the patronage of his kinsman William Norton, serving under him first in the Assistance as an able seaman, although in fact he was treated as a junior officer, and then as a midshipman in the William and Mary. After further service as an able seaman or midshipman in the Gibraltar and Liverpool, King joined the Guernsey, Captain James Chads, on 15th March 1768 as an able seaman for service on the Newfoundland station under Commodore Hugh Palliser, a friend and patron of Captain Cook. // In the Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term Able Seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years experience at sea. ... The term junior officer is sometimes used to make clear that an officer in a military or para-military command is not in over-all command. ... A midshipman is a subordinate officer, or alternatively a commissioned officer of the lowest rank, in the navies of several English-speaking countries. ... Motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei (Latin: Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Capital St. ... Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st Bart, (22 February 1722 – 19 March 1796) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War. ... British explorer James Cook is most noted for having discovered Australia and Hawaii. ...

Having passed for lieutenant on 7th March 1769, King was promoted to this rank on 10th January 1771, serving in several ships before being placed on half pay in May 1773. He was then granted leave to go abroad on his private affairs for one year, spending this time in Paris in scientific study. This was followed by a period with his brother Walter at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of the Reverend Thomas Hornsby, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, who recommended him for Cook's third voyage. Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... College name Corpus Christi College Named after Corpus Christi, Body of Christ Established 1517 Sister College Corpus Christi College President Sir Tim Lankester JCR President Binyamin Even Undergraduates 239 Graduates 126 Homepage Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Thomas Hornsby (1733—1810) was a British astronomer and mathematician. ... The Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford was founded in 1619 and is named after Sir Henry Savile. ...

Service on Captain Cook's third voyage

On board the Resolution King shared the duties of astronomer with Cook, taking astronomical observations on board by sextant to establish the Resolution's position at sea and on shore by sextant or by astronomical quadrant to establish the geographical position of salient points during the course of Cook's surveys. Thus King's geographical positions were an important contribution to the accuracy of the various surveys carried out during the voyage. Resolution in a gale by Willem van de Velde, the younger depicts the first Resolution c. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... A sextant is a measuring instrument generally used to measure the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. ...

Following the death of Cook, King remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cook's successor, King was appointed in command of the Discovery, the Resolution's consort, remaining in her for the rest of the voyage. After his return to England King was very much involved in the publication of the official account of Cook's third voyage, writing the third volume at Woodstock, near Oxford, where his brother Thomas was rector of St Mary Magdalene. But shortly after his return King was promoted post captain and appointed in command of the Crocodile on Channel service. Charles Clerke (1741-1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed with of four voyages of exploration. ... HMS Discovery was the consort ship of James Cooks third expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1776 - 1780. ... Map sources for Woodstock at grid reference SP4416 Woodstock is a small town in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. ... Post-Captain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. ...

Later life

Then towards the end of 1781 he was appointed in command of HMS Resistance, 40 guns, as escort for a large fleet of merchantmen to the West Indies, returning to England shortly afterwards with his health much impaired. He then returned to Woodstock to continue to work on Cook's third voyage. After the publication of the three-volume account of the voyage, advancing tuberculosis drove him to Nice, accompanied by his friends James Trevenen, who had served with him in the Resolution and Discovery, and Captain William Young, who had served with him in the Guernsey, where he died on 16 November 1784 at the age of 34, although the memorial tablet in Woodstock parish church states erroneously that he died in his 32nd year. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1782 in recognition of his astronomical observations during Cook' third voyage. He was also made an honorary L.L.D. Oxon. 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Merchantman may mean: A cargo ship. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Captain James Trevenen (c. ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. ...

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online