Excerpt from Dr. William King and the Co-Operator, 1828-1830 Towards the end of his life King started to write an account of his career. Unfortunately, he dis continued writing after a short time, having dealt only with his life at Ipswich and Westminster. These reminiscences may some day be published, if only for the purpose of enabling co-operators to know how King enlarged his knowledge as a student at Westminster School. While there he had many friends among youths who afterwards made a mark in the world. One of his chief associates at this time was Lord Raglan - the youngest son of the Duke of Beaufort - who once acted as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington, and, later, commanded the British Forces in the Crimean War. Leaving Westminster in due course, King went to Oxford. There he stayed only a very short time before removing to the sister university at Cambridge. At Cambridge, he gave special attention to the subjects of political economy, moral philosophy, and modern history. 'as a student of these subjects he attended lectures given by Dr. Smyth, whose reputa tion was then almost at its zenith. King often stated that he derived great benefit from Dr. Smyth's lectures, which undoubtedly stimulated his interest in questions of social philosophy and national government. He also paid great attention to mathematics, a subject which he afterwards regarded as the key to all knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.