Robert King, second earl of Kingston

(1754-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kingston, Robert King, Earl of, 1754-1799 DNB: King, Robert, second earl of Kingston (1754–1799), accused murderer and property developer LBT ID: LdKing2 VIAF ID: 10930462 LOC ID: no90007819	B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1799-04-17
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Son of the first earl (d. 1797); educated at Eton, he was an Irish improving landlord who once employed Mary Wollstonecraft as governess. In 1798 he was acquitted by the Irish Parliament for murdering his daughter's seducer.
REFERENCES TO Robert King, second earl of Kingston: Mary Wollstonecraft to Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop, 5 November [1786] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, 7 November 1787 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 19 Ch. VII. 1791-1796 Found 1: ¶ 24