Surname: King Forename(s): John William Nationality: English.
Poet. Based in Sheffield. Worked as type caster, newsagent and stationer, and bookseller.
Admired Mazzini. Author of The Emigrant, and Other Poems (1848, by subscription; republished in London in a second edition as Lays of a Struggling Heart [1850]), Tales for the Christmas Hearth (1851), a Memoir of James Montgomery (1858), The Patriot: A Poem (1853), and Ernest, The Pilgrim: A Dramatic Poem (1859). Biographical information: DJO. (AC)