Richard King was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643.
He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
He was re-elected MP for Melcombe Regis in the Long Parliament in November 1640 [2] King is recorded in an incident in 1641 after George Digby was accelerated to the House of Lords.
Digby's younger brother John perched himself on a ladder at the door of the chamber which the speaker, William Lenthall took as an act of disrespect and insubordination and told him to take his place, and not to sit upon the ladder as if he were going to be hanged.
King complained that the Speaker had transgressed his duty in using so disgraceful a speech to so noble a gentleman and after some turmoil obtained a conditional apology.