[2] His siblings included LeRoy King, Jr., who married Mary Isabel Lockwood (daughter of Benoni Lockwood), Katharine Bulkeley Lawrence (niece of Edward H. Bulkeley), and Pamela Anne Sutherland Woodbury (daughter of George Henry Sutherland);[3] and art collector Ethel Marjory King, who married Charles Howland Russell.
[4] The Kings' Newport residence was designed for his father by Stanford White, at the corner of Berkeley and Bellevue Avenues.
Through his father, he was a direct descendant of both Nicholas Fish and Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland.
[9][10] He was educated at St. George's School in Rhode Island, after which he entered Harvard College,[1] where he graduated from in 1908 with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude.
He formed an association in 1920 with the architect Marion Sims Wyeth, a friend from his student days in Paris.