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===[[personal title::Sir]] [[name::Edmund]] [[name::KING]] [[date of birth::1629]]-[[date of death::1709]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Edmond King]] of [[location::Northampton]], [[occupation::physician]]. He began practising as a [[occupation::surgeon]] in [[location::London]] in the early 1650s; his training is not known but he was licensed to practise outside [[location::London]] in 1663. He became a [[education::University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] MD in 1671. he developed a successful surgical practice during the 1660s and 70s, became a royal surgeon, and was knighted in 1676. He became a [[occupation::fellow|Fellow]] of the [[organisations::Royal Society]] in 1666 and undertook extensive animal anatomical experiments.

====Books====
In his will, King directed that his library, together with his plate, coach and horses, be sold by his executors to help fulfil his monetary bequests. His library was [[auction::auctioned]] in [[location of auction::London]], [[date of auction::28.11.1709]], as part of a joint sale with the books of [[crossreference::Sir Henry Spelman]]. 

====Sources====
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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D646603 Will of Sir Edmund King, The National Archives PROB 11/509/88].
*Alston, R. C. ''Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800''.  St Philip, 2010.
*''Bibliotheca selectissima: being the library of the late Sir Edmund King'', [London, 1709], ESTC n37198.
*Martensen, Robert L. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15557 "King <nowiki>[alias Freeman]</nowiki>, Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709), physician and surgeon."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
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