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Edward King (British poet)



Edward King (1612 - 1637), the subject of Milton's Lycidas, was born in Ireland in 1612, the son of Sir John King, a member of a Yorkshire family which had migrated to Ireland. Edward King was admitted a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, on the June 9, 1626, and four years later was elected a fellow.



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