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George Lanchester King was the second Bishop of Madagascar from 1899 to 1919.He was born in 1860 and educated at Clare College Cambridge. Ordained in 1884 he began his career with curacies at St Andrew Tudhoe Grange and Holy Trinity Gateshead. He was then Vicar of St Mary South Shields until 1899 when he was elevated to the Colonial Episcopate.