Richard King
1811?–76
Surgeon, Arctic traveller, and ethnologist. Founder of the Ethnological Society, 1842; secretary, 1844. Assistant-surgeon in H.M.S. Resolute, sent out in 1850 in search of John Franklin.
Source
R. Desmond 1977, DNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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