Edward King (died 8 March 1639) was a Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin from 1611 to 1639.
[2] His predecessor as bishop of Elphin, John Lynch, greatly impoverished the see by alienating properties and in 1611 resigned, declaring himself a Roman Catholic.
During more than a quarter of a century as bishop, King was able to recover Lynch's alienations and much improved the revenue of the diocese.
[4] Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, mentions him honourably in a letter to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, calling him "truly a Royal bishop".
He is also through his granddaughter Anne, daughter of one of his younger sons John the ancestor of the well-known French family of Frenchpark.