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Edward King (Royal Navy officer)

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368: 73: 388: 115: 80:, eldest son of the family. After the Union, the administration wished to remain on good terms with the Kings; they declined to support Mahon, and Edward was returned at the 178: 161:. His elder brothers put him forward again that year as a candidate for Roscommon, although he was away at sea escorting convoys. The Mahon interest had revived, and 72:. In 1799, their rivals, the pro-Unionist Mahons, had used his brother Robert's anti-Union stance to obtain the Lord Lieutenant's backing against him and take the 169:, as a candidate. Mahon's interest proved too strong, and King withdrew from the contest without a poll. King died on 25 September 1807 at a naval hospital in 378: 373: 313: 25: 322: 318: 81: 130:
and her consorts drove three or four of the thirty-two gun-vessels ashore, but they were badly outgunned by the shore forts and the four
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and was commissioned a lieutenant on 12 June 1796. From May to August 1801, he commanded the brig-sloop
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Roscommon constituencies (1801–1922)
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He was promoted commander on 29 April 1802, and commanded the ship-sloop
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s squadron was joined early in the morning of the 18th by the frigate
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seat in the Parliament of Ireland at a by-election for Lt.-Col.
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King's family was one of several with electoral interests in
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Early in 1806, King was appointed to command the frigate
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Index

Royal Navy
Roscommon
United Kingdom Parliament
Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston
George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston
Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton
Eton
Harrow
Royal Navy
Charger
County Roscommon
Roscommon
Thomas Mahon
1802 election
Argus
post-captain
sixth-rate
Ariadne
Gravelines
invasion of England
Dunkirk
Boulogne
prams
Vestal
Calais
HMS Alexandria
Lord Hartland
Stephen Mahon
St Ann's
Barbados

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