page_title: Seymour King
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Seymour King / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Lady Julie Marie King by Mendelssohn London
context_page_description: Sir Henry Seymour King, 1st Baronet KCIE was a British banker, mountaineer and Conservative politician.
  King was born at Brighton, the son of Henry Samuel King. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he won an oratory gold medal. He joined his father in the banking business of Henry S. King & Co. This had been established in 1868, when his father Henry Samuel King took over the banking and India agency work of Smith Elder & Co, booksellers, stationers, East India agents, shippers, and bankers. When his father died in 1878 King became senior partner. He expanded the business which was based on Bombay and Calcutta, to Port Said, Delhi and Simla. He was a well-known banker in London, Bombay and Calcutta. One distinction of the bank was the employment of women as typists, as early as 1887, something which most other banks did not do until the First World War. King also acquired two Indian newspapers - the Overland Mail and the Homeward Mail, which were founded by John William Kaye, the historian of the Indian Mutiny. King's brother in law Edward Jenkins, a former MP for Dundee, became editor of these in 1886.
  King was an adventurous mountaineer.
context_section_description: Henry Seymour King married Julia Mary Jenkins in Montreal, 21 October 1875. She was the daughter of Rev. John Jenkins, D.D., of Montreal, and his wife, Harriette, daughter of the late George Shepstone, Esquire, of Clifton, England. Lady King was Mayoress, for two years, of the Royal Borough of Kensington. During this period, she was president of the Queen's Jubilee
  Nurses' Endowment Fund, which raised the largest sum contributed by any borough in London, except the city, for that purpose. She was President of the Primrose League at Hull. She  accompanied her husband in mountaineering expeditions in Switzerland. She was a keen yachtswoman, who regularly sailed with her husband in their yacht Glory. The couple lived at 25 Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington, London, England.
caption: Lady Julie Mary King (née Jenkins) by Mendelssohn London
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