Author: Edward King

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Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781330703694

Excerpt from Spiritual Letters of Edward King Edward King, the writer of these letters, was the son of the Archdeacon of Rochester, the Ven. Walter King, and grandson of the Bishop of Rochester, Dr. King, who held that See during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He was born at Stone, December 29, 1829, and after being privately educated by tutors, he went to Oriel College, Oxford, and took his degree in 1851. After a short period of travel he was ordained in 1854 by Bishop Wilberforce to the Curacy of Wheatley, the village at the foot of the hill leading up to Cuddesdon. That he never lost his love for Wheatley and for the charm of village life the letters in this little volume abundantly testify. It was the same year in which the Theological College at Cuddesdon was founded. Four years later, in 1858, King became Chaplain of that Institution, when the Rev. Alfred Pott (afterwards Archdeacon of Berkshire) was Principal, and Henry Parry Liddon was Vice-Principal. In 1863, on the death of the Rev. W. H. Swinney (who had succeeded Mr. Pott in 1859), King was made Principal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.