William King

William King, writer of satires and light verse, is buried in the north cloister of Westminster Abbey but he seems never to have had an inscribed gravestone. He was a son of Ezekiel King of London and was educated at Westminster School and studied law at Oxford. He had a sister Elizabeth. His first book was published in 1688 and his titles include Dialogues of the Dead and The Art of Cookery... He was secretary to the wife of Prince George of Denmark, judge of the Admiralty court in Dublin and keeper of the records at Dublin Castle. Swift and Pope were his friends. He was buried on 27th December 1712.

Further reading

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography