page_title: William King (St Mary Hall)
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: William King (St Mary Hall) / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of William King (1685–1763), Oxford University academic and poet.
context_page_description: William King was an English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719, He was known for strongly held Jacobite views, and as a satirist and poet.
context_section_description: King publicly severed his connection with the Jacobite party in 1761. He accompanied a deputation from the university to present George III with an address of congratulation on his marriage. He was personally introduced to the king by Lord Shelburne.
  King died on 30 December 1763, and was buried on 5 January 1764 at Ealing, Middlesex. where he had resided for many years on an estate called Newby, near the church. He was also lessee of the rectory of Ealing. Throughout his life he was a water-drinker. His heart, having been enclosed in a silver urn, was deposited by his own directions in the chapel of St Mary Hall, where there is a monument to his memory, with a Latin epitaph written by himself.
caption: William King, 1760 engraving by Thomas Hudson
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