Portrait of Captain James King from the National Library of Australia

Please click on the picture to download a biography document of Captain King kindly
researched by A.C.F. David Esq.


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On the south wall of St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock, there is a   memorial tablet to the
Reverend James King, one time Dean of Raphoe in Ireland,  and his wife Anne erected by
their four surviving sons.  

Also commemorated on this tablet is ‘their beloved brother’ Captain James King, Royal Navy,
‘the friend and colleague of Captain James Cook in his last voyage round the world’.