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King, William (1650-1729)
Theologian and Archbishop of Dublin. Born in Antrim and educated at TCD, he became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He was made Bishop of Derry after the Battle of the Boyne and translated to the see of Dublin in 1703. A friend and correspondent of Jonathan Swift, he privately encouraged The Draper's Letters. In The State of Protestants of Ireland under King James's Government (1691) he gave a damning account of the short-lived administration of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell [see James II].
When Bishop of Derry, he addressed the Presbyterians in A Discourse Concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God (1694). His theological treatise De Origine Mali (1702), became the subject of a debate that involved Leibniz. The English translation by Edward Law (An essay on the Origin of Evil, 1731) became the standard edition. In Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge (1709) King defined the doctrine of free will.
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