Having worked hard for the restoration of Charles II, he was created on 4 September 1660 an Irish peer by the title of Baron Kingston, of Kingston in the County of Dublin granted at Westminster on 4 September 1660, was sworn of the Irish privy council, and was appointed on 19 March 1660–1 a commissioner of the court of claims for the settlement of Ireland.
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King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.
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