Scholar Remembered
The Reverend Robert King, clergyman, teacher and respected historian of the Irish church, died on 4 January after several years of declining health. Born in Cork in 1815, he had spent more than four decades in County Antrim, where he served as headmaster of the diocesan school at Ballymena. His death ended a long career combining parish work, education, historical research and Irish-language scholarship. King was buried at Broughshane, a village closely associated with the final period of his life, while former pupils, clergy and readers were left to assess the unusual range of his intellectual labour.
