{{Short description|Australian politician (1832–1910)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Henry King | honorific_suffix = | image = Henry Edward King - Queensland politician.png | caption = | office = Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly | term_start = 25 July 1876 | term_end = 26 July 1883 | predecessor = William Walsh | successor = William Groom | constituency = Ravenswood, Maryborough | constituency_AM1 = Wide Bay | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 12 August 1870 | term_end1 = 13 July 1871 | predecessor1 = Gilbert Eliott | successor1 = Horace Tozer | term_start2 = 4 October 1871 | term_end2 = 12 November 1873 | predecessor2 = Horace Tozer | successor2 = William Bailey | constituency_AM3 = Ravenswood | assembly3 = Queensland Legislative | term_start3 = 9 December 1874 | term_end3 = 14 November 1878 | predecessor3 = Edward O'Donnell MacDevitt | successor3 = Seat abolished | constituency_AM4 = Maryborough | assembly4 = Queensland Legislative | term_start4 = 15 November 1878 | term_end4 = 17 August 1883 | predecessor4 = New seat | successor4 = Richard Bingham Sheridan | alongside4 = John Douglas, Henry Palmer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1832|6|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Limerick, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1910|2|5|1832|6|9|df=y}} | death_place = South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | resting_place = Toowong Cemetery | birth_name = Henry Edward King | party = | other_party = | spouse = Harriette Armstrong | alma_mater = | occupation = Surveyor, Barrister | relations = }}
'''Henry Edward King''' (9 June 1832 – 5 February 1910) was a politician in colonial Queensland, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 1876 to 1883.<ref name=adb> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=M. Carter |first=A. A. Morrison |title=King, Henry Edward (1832–1910) |king-henry-edward-3954 |accessdate=4 January 2014}}</ref>
King was born in Mount Coote, Limerick, Ireland, son of John Wingfield King and his wife Alicia, ''née'' Coote.<ref name=adb/>
King was member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Wide Bay 12 August 1870 to 13 July 1871 and from 4 October 1871 to 12 November 1873; for Ravenswood from 9 December 1874 to 14 November 1878 and for Maryborough from 15 November 1878 to 17 August 1883.<ref name=qp>{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3408036467|accessdate= 25 January 2015}}</ref> King was Secretary for Public Works and Mines in the Macalister Ministry from November 1874 to May 1876. Two months later he was chosen Speaker of the Assembly, and occupied the chair of the House till July 1883. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Maryborough at the 1888 colonial election.<ref>{{cite Australasia|King, Henry Edward}}</ref>
King died in South Brisbane, Queensland, on 5 February 1910 and buried in Toowong Cemetery.<ref>[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=142606 King Henry Edward] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120215/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=142606 |date=17 May 2014 }} — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 17 May 2014.</ref> He was survived by his wife, four sons and three daughters.<ref name=adb/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-qld }} {{s-bef|before=William Walsh}} {{s-ttl|title=Speaker of the Legislative Assembly|years=1876 – 1883}} {{s-aft|after=William Groom}} {{s-bef | before = Gilbert Eliott}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for Wide Bay|years=1870–1871}} {{s-aft | after = Horace Tozer}} {{s-bef | before = Horace Tozer}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for Wide Bay|years=1871–1873}} {{s-aft | after = William Bailey}} {{s-bef | before = Edward O'Donnell MacDevitt}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for Ravenswood|years=1874–1878}} {{s-non|reason=Abolished}} {{s-new|seat}} {{s-ttl |title = Member for Maryborough|years=1878–1883|alongside=John Douglas, Henry Palmer}} {{s-aft | after = Richard Bingham Sheridan}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Henry Edward}} Category:1832 births Category:1910 deaths Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Irish emigrants to colonial Australia Category:Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Category:Burials at Toowong Cemetery Category:Politicians from the Colony of Queensland Category:19th-century Australian public servants