Lives in Cricket No 9 - JH King

His father, James Temple King, was born around 1818 probably in Medbourne on the county boundary with Northamptonshire, and had been a day-boy at Uppingham School in neighbouring Rutland, riding there and back and stabling his pony during school hours at ‘The Falcon’. Later he worked under the celebrated architect Sir Gilbert Scott and was himself responsible for building churches at Peterborough and Wisbech and restoring that at Rockingham. At some point he moved to Lutterworth, where he was for many years a prominent builder in the firm of Law, which in time became Law and King, and was entrusted with the most important project of his time in the district, the restoration of the roof of the parish church of Saint Mary, which involved the employment of 66 carpenters. The church was originally founded in the twelfth century on or near the site of the original Anglo-Saxon settlement Lutteres Vording (Luther’s Farm) and still retains traces of thirteenth-century work and mediaeval frescos of crowned figures hawking and of Judgement Day; although it is best known to-day 12 Early Days Comfortably middle-class. King’s father, James Temple King, attended Uppingham School and was a prominent figure in Lutterworth. St Mary’s Church, Lutterworth, in 2006. Restored by the family building business, it figured regularly in King’s life.