Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ernest Newcomen King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston (31 July 1848 – 13 January 1896), was an Irish peer and Conservative politician.

Lord Kingston- who by the mid-1830s had suffered a stroke and the effects of his heavy drinking, and was "almost entirely under the influence of his wife", whose "high-living" was disliked by his father, Viscount Lorton- publicly disowned the child, as since 1846 his wife had been the lover of "dubious and insolvent French nobleman" Vicomte Ernest Valentin de Satgé St. Jean.

Lord Kingston's attempt to sue for divorce in 1850 failed due to his own extramarital affair, with his nursemaid and travelling companion Julie Imhoff, being established.

Henry King's "legitimacy was confirmed (as it could not be disproved) at the probate court in Dublin in 1870", meaning he succeeded to the title of Earl of Kingston in 1871 at the death of the 7th Earl, but the family's "disastrously dispersed hereditary lands" did not come to him with the title, the Kings having been "driven to extraordinary lengths" to prevent the 6th Earl's estranged wife and her French lover from gaining possession of their property.

[4] On 23 January 1872, at St James's, Westminster, King married Florence Margaret, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward King-Tenison, of Kilronan Castle, county Roscommon.