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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Robert Moss King''' (1832–1903), was a British officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]], whose life in India is portrayed in his wife [[Elizabeth King (author)|Elizabeth King]]'s memoirs, ''[[The Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India 1877-1882]]''.<ref name=Kennedy1996>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dane |title=The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj |date=1996 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-20188-4 |pages=119–120 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKXeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA119 |language=en |chapter=6. Nurseries of the Ruling Race}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Buckingham |first1=James Silk |last2=Sterling |first2=John |last3=Maurice |first3=Frederick Denison |last4=Stebbing |first4=Henry |last5=Dilke |first5=Charles Wentworth |last6=Hervey |first6=Thomas Kibble |last7=Dixon |first7=William Hepworth |last8=Maccoll |first8=Norman |last9=Rendall |first9=Vernon Horace |last10=Murry |first10=John Middleton |journal=Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle |date=11 April 1885 |issue=2998 |page=466 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWIvAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA466 |title=The Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India 1877-1882 |publisher=J. Francis |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Bhandari2012>{{cite book |last1=Bhandari |first1=Rajika |title=The Raj on the Move |date=2012 |publisher=Roli Books Private Limited |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-7436-849-2 |pages=103–104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN2mBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=Chattopadhyay2023>{{cite book |last1=Chattopadhyay |first1=Swati |title=Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire |date=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=London |isbn=978-1-350-28823-2 |pages=124–125 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddLGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 |language=en |chapter=8. Making Invisible}}</ref><ref name=HMSO1859>{{cite book |title=Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners |date=1859 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=317 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fihAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA317|language=en |chapter=Appendix IV: Statistics}}</ref> <br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Robert Moss King was born in 1832, a son of the Reverend William Moss King.<ref name=Obit1903>{{cite news |title=Death of Mr R. Moss King |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002063/19030718/060/0003|access-date=26 December 2024 |work=Chard and Ilminster News|date=18 July 1903|location=Somerset |page=3|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]],<ref name=Obit1903/> then gained admission to [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], from where he graduated in 1855,<ref name=Obit1903/><ref name=UI1855>{{cite news |title=University Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18550216/002/0001 |access-date=26 December 2024 |work=London Evening Standard|date=16 February 1855|location=London |page=1|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1856.<ref name=NWP1881 >{{cite book |editor-last=Smeaton|editor-first=R|title=History of services of gazetted officers employed under the government of the N.W.P. and Oudh. Corrected up to 1st Jan., 1881|date=1881 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Govt. Press |location=Allahabad|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofservice00alla/page/24/mode/2up?q=bulandshahr|page=25}}</ref><br />
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==Personal and family==<br />
In 1860 King married [[Elizabeth King (author)|Elizabeth Augusta Egerton]].<ref name=Obit1903/> They had two sons and a daughter.<ref name=Obit1903/><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
King received the [[Indian Mutiny Medal]].<ref name=Obit1903/><br />
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==Death==<br />
King died in 1903 at [[Ashcott]].<ref name=Obit1903/><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite web |title=Robert Moss King 1832-1903 |url=https://www.natgould.org/robert_moss_king_1832-1903 |website=www.natgould.org}}<br />
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