Captain Edward King (9 June 1774 – 25 September 1807) was a Royal Navy officer who represented Roscommon for several years in the United Kingdom Parliament.
After the Union, the administration wished to remain on good terms with the Kings; they declined to support Mahon, and Edward was returned at the 1802 election without a contest.
He had recently returned to Ariadne, on blockading duty off of Gravelines, when the Dutch flotilla joining the proposed invasion of England broke out of Dunkirk on 17 July 1805, making for Boulogne.
The Ariadne's squadron was joined early in the morning of the 18th by the frigate Vestal, which had heard the firing, and they renewed the attack on the flotilla off Calais, without notable results.
[2] His elder brothers put him forward again that year as a candidate for Roscommon, although he was away at sea escorting convoys.