The British Musical Biography

[E] King, William, organist and composer,
born in 1624. Chorister in Magdalen College,
Oxford, 1648. B.A., 1649. Chaplain of Mag-
dalen College, 1650-4. Probationer-fellow of
All Soul's College, 1654. Organist of New
College, Oxford, 1664. He died at Oxford,
November 17, 1680. He wrote a Service in B
flat, Anthems, etc., and " Poems of Mr. Cowley,
and others, composed into Songs and Ayres,"
Oxford, 1668.

[+] His father, George King, was organist of
Winchester Cathedral.

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