{{Short description|British judge (1871-1937)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use British English|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name= Gilbert Walter King | honorific_suffix = OBE | original_name = | image=Gilbert Walter King, Judge of the British Supreme Court for China.png | image_size =150px | office1 = Registrar, British Supreme Court for China | term_start1 =1908 | term_end1 =1930 | predecessor1 =John Douglas | successor1 =Cyril Haines | office2 = Assistant Judge, British Supreme Court for China | term_start2 =1927 | term_end2 =1931 | predecessor2 = Peter Grain | successor2 =Penrhyn Grant Jones | birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1871|6|30}} | birth_place=Bombay, India | death_date={{Death date and age|df=yes|1937|12|23|1871|6|30}} | death_place= Reigate, England }} '''Gilbert Walter King''' OBE (30 June 1871 – 23 December 1937) was a British judge who served in China. His last position before retirement was as Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China.
==Early life== King was born in Bombay, India, on 30 June 1871. His father, Alfred King, was a storekeeper and then an accountant for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. His mother, Mary, was also born in Bombay.<ref>P.D. Coates, China Consuls, - biographical information for H.F. King (King's brother), p521. 1911 Census information. www.family search.org</ref> King was educated at Brighton Grammar School and London University, where he graduated with an LL.B in 1895. He then practiced as a solicitor in London.<ref name=times>Obituary, ''The Times'', 24 December 1937</ref>
==Legal career== King was appointed Assistant Clerk of the British Supreme Court for China and Corea on 1 April 1903. At that time, his elder brother, Harold King, was sitting as Acting Assistant Judge of the court. King was promoted to Registrar in 1908 and served in that position until 1927. In 1919, he re-qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn. He was awarded an OBE in 1925.<ref>"O.B.E. for Mr GW King", ''North China Herald'', 18 July 1925, p27</ref>
In November 1927, he was appointed Assistant Judge of the court on the promotion of the then Assistant Judge, Peter Grain to Judge.<ref>''North China Herald'', 1 October 1927</ref>
==Retirement and death== King retired in 1931 and was succeeded by Penrhyn Grant Jones.
He died six years later, on 23 December 1937, at his home at Reigate, England, at the age of 66.<ref name=times/>
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last= Clark|first= Douglas|date= 2015|title= Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)|location= Hong Kong|publisher= Earnshaw Books}}, Vol. 1: {{ISBN|978-988-82730-8-9}}; Vol. 2: {{ISBN|978-988-82730-9-6}}; Vol. 3: {{ISBN|978-988-82731-9-5}}
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