John King

(1753 c.-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: King, John [formerly Jacob Rey] (c.1753–1824), moneylender and radical LBT ID: JoKing1824	B/BAP: 1753 DIED: 1824-08
SOURCES: DNB
Jewish money-lender and political radical; he was a friend of William Godwin and the father of the writer Charlotte [Byrne] Dacre.
REFERENCES TO John King: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 22 September 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 4: ¶ 7 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 28 Ch. XI. 1798 Found 1: ¶ 12 Ch. IV. 1801-1803