Edward Bolton King
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Edward Bolton King (15 July 1800 – 23 March 1878)[1] was a British Whig politician from Umberslade in Nuthurst, Warwickshire.[2]
King was the son of Edward King, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and the grandson of Rev. James King, Dean of Raphoe. He was the nephew of Captain James King, who accompanied James Cook on his last voyage round the world, the Rt. Rev. Walker King, Bishop of Rochester and of John King, Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, and Pitt's spy-master during the French Revolution. In 1803, he inherited a fortune from his great uncle, Edward Bolton, of Preston, Lancashire and Askham Hall, Westmoreland.[3] He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn.
In 1826, he bought the Umberslade estate in Warwickshire from Lady Amherst for £75,000. The house had not been lived in since the death of the last Lord Archer, and so King had to spend some £13,000 on repairs. In 1834, he rebuilt the ancient chapel at Nuthurst, near Hockley Heath and also provided a school and land for a church in Hockley Heath itself. In 1846, he leased out Umberslade and moved to the house that his father-in-law had recently rebuilt at Chadshunt. In 1858, he sold the Umberslade estate to George Frederick Muntz, son of the Polish industrialist, George Muntz.
In 1828 King married Georgiana (d. 1858), the younger daughter and eventual heiress of Robert Knight of Barrells, Warwickshire, by whom he had one surviving son and six daughters. In 1859 he married Louisa Palmer, by whom he had another son and two daughters.