Earl kingston biography
- Earl of Kingston is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
- Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston PC (I) (29 March 1726 – 8 November 1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
- Records show that Earl Kingston was killed in the village of Saint Aubin.
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Biography of Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 1584-1643
In or after 1852 the contents of the Crypt of the Church of St Edmund, Holme Pierrepoint [Map] were listed with a diagram by the Reverend James Cleaver, Rector of Holme Pierrepont, as follows:
1. Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston
2. [his former wife] Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint
3. William Pierrepoint died 1719
4. Evelyn Pierrepont 2nd Duke Kingston upon Hull
5. Unknown
6. Georgiana Ann Pierrepont
7. [his great grandson] Robert Pierrepont 3rd Earl Kingston.
8. [his grandson] Robert Pierrepont
9. William Pierrepont
10. [his great grandson] William Pierrepont 4th Earl Kingston
11. [his great grandson] Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull
12. [his son] Gervase Pierrepont
13. Unknown
14. [his great grandson] William Pierrepont
15. Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke Kingston upon Hull
16. Isabella Bentinck Duchess Kingston upon Hull
17. Francis Pierrepont, died Aug 13 1679.
18. Charles Medows aka Pierrepont 1st Earl Manv
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Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston
Edward King, 1st Earl of KingstonPC (I) (29 March 1726 – 8 November 1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
In 1761 Sir Edward King was elected to be Grand Master of Masons in Ireland and their subordinate jurisdictions.
Biography
He was the eldest son of Sir Henry King, 3rd Baronet and Isabella Wingfield, daughter of Edward Wingfield. He had a twin sister Frances, who married Hans Widman Wood of Rosmead, County Westmeath and had issue, including Isabella. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Boyle between 1749 and 1760, before sitting for County Sligo from 1761 to 1764.[1] On 22 May 1755 he succeeded to the family baronetcy following the premature death of his elder brother, Robert King, 1st Baron Kingsborough. On 15 July 1764 he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Kingston and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. He was further honoured when he was made Viscount Kingston on 15 November 1766 and Earl Kingston on 25 August 1768, both also Irish peerages.
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Born: 9/10/1894
Born in Massachusetts, Earl G. Kingston first worked in Worcester, MA, for the J. P. Kingston & Son firm (1910-14). At the same time he attended Wentworth Institute in Boston, gaining his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1914. There followed several more years of apprenticeship in Worcester, first working for the Indian Hill Company from 1915 to 1917 and then, also in 1917, the E. D. Ward Company. In 1918 he returned to J. P. Kingston as a manager and remained while taking classes at MIT. However, the first World War intervened, and he dropped out of MIT. After the war, he returned to J. P. Kingston, remaining through 1934. In 1934 he was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, based in Baltimore; and he remained with them through 1936. In 1936 he launched his own office while at the same time working for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield, MA, but again in 1940 he returned to the Army Corps, this time bsed in the District of Columbia. From 1941 to 1944 he was again in Baltimore, working for the G. L. Martin CompCopyright ©armywing.pages.dev 2025