From the we learn that Arthur William Waterlow King was born on 22 August 1861 and was the Chairman of Acton Urban District Council for one year in 1903-1904. He was a publisher and bookseller, who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1898.
He was the fourth of the seven children of Philip Steven King (1820-1908) and Emily Jane King née Waterlow (1829-1902). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1861 in the Lambeth Registration District, Surrey (now Greater London).
His six siblings were: Mary Charlotte Waterlow King (1856-1954); Alice Rebecca Waterlow King (1857-1911); Rosalie Isabel Waterlow King (1859-1925); Albert Sydney Waterlow King (1863-1949); Philip Walter Waterlow King (1865-1934) and Horace Stephen Waterlow King (1866-1953).
The census that was undertaken on 2 April 1871 shows him as aged 9 years and one of eight pupils boarding at the family home of George Voigt, M.A., a clergyman and an assistant master at Dulwich College, Dulwich Common, Surrey (now Greater London).
He was described in the census that was compiled on 3 April 1881 as aged 19 years and a parliamentary bookseller living at 10 De Crespigny Park, Camberwell, Surrey (now Greater London), with his parents and five of his siblings: Mary Charlotte Waterlow King; Alice Rebecca Waterlow King; Rosalie Isabel Waterlow King; Albert Sydney Waterlow King - a builder's apprentice and Horace Stephen Waterlow King - scholar. His father was also listed as a parliamentary bookseller.
On 9 March 1886 he married Jane Elizabeth Beatty (1853-1949) in St John the Evangelist Church, East Dulwich, Surrey (now Greater London) where in the marriage register he shown as aged 25 years, a bachelor and a bookseller who was living at 10 De Crespigny Park, Camberwell, the son of Philip Steven King, a bookseller, whilst his wife was described as aged 32 years and a spinster who was residing at Fanfield, East Dulwich Grove, the daughter of Robert Beatty, a private gentleman.
They were to have just one child, Horace Herbert King (1890-1976), who, when he was baptised on 27 May 1890 at St Mary's Church, Staines, Middlesex (now Staines-on-Thames, Surrey), the family were, according to the baptismal register, living at Cherry Orchard, Staines.
The census that was taken on 5 April 1891 shows him as aged 29 years and bookseller living at Cherry Orchard, Gresham Road, Staines, with his wife, their son, his father-in-law - Robert Beatty, aged 82 years and a retired saddler and his mother-in-law - Elizabeth A. Beatty, aged 78 years, together with a cook and a housemaid.
On 31 March 1901 he is shown on the census as aged 39 years, a bookseller and a publisher, residing at 1 South Parade, Acton, Middlesex (now Greater London), with his wife, together with a cook and a housemaid. Their son was shown as one of twenty pupils boarding at Sunny Down private school at Compton, Guildford, Surrey.
The 1907 edition of Kelly's Directory of Ealing and Acton lists him as King, Arthur William Waterlow, J.P., Oulart, 1 South Parade, Bedford Park.
Electoral registers in from 1909 to 1914 list him as voter owning land and a freehold house called Brookside in Northchapel, Petworth, Sussex.
When he completed his census return form on 2 April 1911 he described himself as aged 49 years and a publisher, occupying a ten roomed property at 2 South Parade, Bedford Park, Acton, with his wife and their son - a student, together with a cook and a housemaid.
On 12 April 1920 he is shown as aged 59 years and a publisher on the manifest of the SS Edinburgh Castle of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company arriving at Southampton, Hampshire, having embarked at Madeira, Portugal.
The census return form that he completed on 19 June 1921 shows him as aged 59 years, 10 months and a publisher. He was employed by P. S. King & Son Ltd. at Orchard House, 2/4 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, SW1 and was living in an eight roomed property called Brookside in Northchapel, Petworth, with his wife who was shown as aged 67 years, 11 months and his son whom he described as aged 31 years, 4 months, also a publisher of the same company, together with a cook and a female general domestic servant.
His death was registered as aged 77 years in the 1st quarter of 1939 in the Midhurst Registration District, West Sussex. Probate records confirm that he died on 30 December 1938 at Brookside, Northchapel, Petworth and that when probate was granted on 10 March 1939, jointly to his widow and his son, who was described as a barrister-at-law, his effects totalled £24,426-7s-7d.
His in the churchyard of St. Michaels Church, Northchapel, Petworth, GU28 9HP. He is shown as 'A.W. King. J.P. Chairman of the Council' on the memorial plaque attached to the Radcliffe obelisk in Acton Park, East Churchfield Road, London, W3.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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