page_title: Thomas King (slave trader)
section_title: Other activities
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas King (slave trader) / Other activities
caption_attribution_description: A meeting at Trinity House: This engraving was published as Plate 88 of Microcosm of London (1810) (see File:Microcosm of London Plate 088 - Trinity House.jpg).
context_page_description: Thomas King was a British slave-trader and partner in the firm of Camden, Calvert and King.
  His early career was at sea in a variety of vessels involved in the slave trade in the Caribbean and West Africa in the 1760s. He probably met his future business partners Anthony Calvert and William Camden at this time when he was master on ships owned by them. He first partnered with them as Camden, Calvert and King for the voyage of the Three Good Friends to St Vincent in 1773 and the firm subsequently made many slaving and trading voyages in which they transported at least 22,000 enslaved persons, mostly from West Africa to the Caribbean.
  In 1776 he was tried for murder at the Old Bailey in London but acquitted. He was a governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, elected to the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, and one of the founder subscribers of Lloyds of London.
  King acquired significant wealth and owned a number of estates in British Guiana. He left an estate of £120,000 in 1824.
context_section_description: In 1771, King was one of the founding subscribers of Lloyds of London. He was also a governor of the Foundling Hospital.
  He was elected a younger brother of Trinity House in October 1780 on the recommendation of Timothy Mangles, a ship owner in Wapping, and an elder brother in 1788. Many of those involved in the trade with West Africa were members of Trinity House. He featured in the Great Court Painting that was commissioned in 1794 to mark the design of Trinity House. Contemporaries of Thomas King among the elder brothers around 1810 included the Duke of Marlborough, two Lords, four Earls, and two Viscounts.
  He was a member of the Blackheath Golf Club (later the Royal Blackheath Golf Club) whose members had strong Masonic and slaving connections.
caption: "A meeting at Trinity House" from The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature, 1810[13]
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