Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham ( 1669 - 1734 )

Birth: Exeter, Devon, England (1669) Death: His seat at Ockham, Surrey (22 July 1734) Burial: The parish church at Ockham, Surrey Profession: Barrister Education: Nonconformist Academy kept by Joseph Hallett at Exeter; apprenticed to his father; Leyden; Middle Temple (admitted 1694) Career: Brought up as a Presbyterian, he published a book on the early Church (1691), which impressed John Locke, who persuaded his father to send him to Leyden; called to the Bar (1698); MP for Beeralston (1701-1714); Recorder of Glastonbury (1705); Recorder of London (1708-1715); Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1714-1725); Privy Councillor (1715); Speaker of the House of Lords (1725); Lord High Steward at the trial of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712); Lord Chancellor (1725-1733), he was the first Lord Chancellor to be paid (£1200 a year) rather than receive profits from the sale of offices; author of the Act which substituted English for Latin as the language for legal records; one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1725, 1727); Governor of the Charterhouse; died of paralysis Honours: Kt 1708; Baron 1725 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 14/11/1728 Proposers: John Machin.