Edward King (c. 1606 – 1681) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660.
King was the son of Richard King of Ashby de la Launde and his wife Elizabeth Colly, daughter of Anthony Colly of Glaston, Rutland and MP for Rutland.
[1] King was finally called to the bar in 1646 and replaced a Royalist as Recorder of Grimsby which position he held until his death.
He was one of the most active MPs, being named to 83 committees, in eight of which he took the chair, acting as teller in 24 divisions, and making 45 recorded speeches.
He was arrested by the deputy lieutenants during the Second Anglo-Dutch War which he claimed to be an act of personal revenge by Sir Robert Carr and was released after three months.
In February 1666 he was committed to the Tower of London for refusing to guarantee his peaceable demeanour.
In 1672, he was granted a licence to hold a Presbyterian meeting at his house in Ashby and it was said that he had counselled or set on above 90 actions at common law in the ecclesiastical court at Lincoln in order to protect those questioned for non-conformity.