Robin King

Robin Andrew "Billy" King, (born 7 July 1966) is a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader who, despite having been born into a Catholic family, served as the commander of the Ulster Protestant Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). A close friend of the organisation's founder Billy Wright, King took over as leader following the death of Mark "Swinger" Fulton, who had succeeded Wright when he was assassinated by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in December 1997.

Early years

King was born in Lurgan, County Armagh on 7 July 1966 to a Roman Catholic family, in which faith he was raised until the age of nine. He attended St. Paul's Catholic primary school in the Ballymacbredan Road in Magheralin on the outskirts of Lurgan where he excelled as a Gaelic Athletic Association player and received a medal for his skill at Irish dancing. When he was nine years old, the family transferred to Waringstown in the wake of his mother's conversion from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland (or Anglican) faith. He later became a loyalist which is typically associated with Northern Ireland's Protestant community; however he kept his early Catholic background hidden from most of his loyalist friends.

Robin King (priest)

Robin Lucas Colin King (born Quebec 15 February 1959) has been Archdeacon of Stansted in the Diocese of Chelmsford since 2013.

King was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, Dundee University and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1990. After a curacy at St Augustine, Ipswich he was Vicar of St Mary, Bures then Rural Dean of Sudbury before his appointment. He was an Honorary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral from 2008 until 2013.

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