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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
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thepeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
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.
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