Letter 2303

King asks for Sloane’s help in finding work for his ‘Eldest Daughter, just turned of 18’. She understands and can read French and knows a little German. He does not want her to work below her station, but desperately wants her to find something. He laments that ‘It is many good Gentlemen’s ill fate to be reduced in the World’. King was a Church of England clergyman, who married William Durham’s daughter Ann. When she passed away he married Elizabeth Aris, with whom he had six children. His son, also named John King, became a classical scholar (W. P. Courtney, King, John (16521732), rev. Leonard W. Cowie, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15575, accessed 15 Aug 2011]).