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background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ordination</th><td class="infobox-data">12 April 1674<br />by <a href="/wiki/John_Parker_(bishop)" title="John Parker (bishop)">John Parker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">25 January 1691<br />by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Marsh" title="Francis Marsh">Francis Marsh</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1 May 1650<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Antrim,_County_Antrim" title="Antrim, County Antrim">Antrim, County Antrim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Kingdom of Ireland</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 May 1729<span style="display:none">(1729-05-08)</span> (aged 79)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Kingdom of Ireland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data">St Mary's Church, Donnybrook</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_christianity.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/31px-P_christianity.svg.png" decoding="async" width="31" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/47px-P_christianity.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/62px-P_christianity.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Christianity" title="Portal:Christianity">Christianity portal</a></span></li></ul> <p><b>William King</b> (1 May 1650 – 8 May 1729) was an <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism#Anglican_divines" title="Anglicanism">divine</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a>, who was <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Dublin_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)">Archbishop of Dublin</a> from 1703 to 1729. He was an author and supported the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>. He had considerable political influence in Ireland, including an effective veto on judicial appointments. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_King_(bishop)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>King was born in May 1650 in <a href="/wiki/County_Antrim" title="County Antrim">County Antrim</a>, to James King and his wife; his parents were recent immigrants from <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>. He was educated at The Royal School, <a href="/wiki/Dungannon" title="Dungannon">Dungannon</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Tyrone" title="County Tyrone">County Tyrone</a>, and thereafter at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a>, graduating <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> on 23 February 1670 and <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_Dublin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)">MA</a> in 1673.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_King_(bishop)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 25 October 1671, King was ordained a <a href="/wiki/Deacon" title="Deacon">deacon</a> as <a href="/wiki/Chaplain" title="Chaplain">chaplain</a> to <a href="/wiki/John_Parker_(archbishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Parker (archbishop)">John Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Tuam" title="Archbishop of Tuam">Archbishop of Tuam</a>, and on 14 July 1673 Parker gave him the <a href="/wiki/Prebend" class="mw-redirect" title="Prebend">prebend</a> of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kilmainmore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kilmainmore (page does not exist)">Kilmainmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Mayo" title="County Mayo">County Mayo</a>. King, who lived as part of Parker's household, was ordained a <a href="/wiki/Priest" title="Priest">priest</a> on 12 April 1674.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His support of the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> in 1688 served to advance his position. He became <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Derry" title="Bishop of Derry">Bishop of Derry</a> in 1691. He was advanced to the position of <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Dublin_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)">Archbishop of Dublin</a> in 1703, a post he would hold until his death. He gave £1,000 for the founding of "Archbishop King's Professorship of Divinity" at Trinity College in 1718. Much of his correspondence survives and provides a historic resource for the study of the Ireland of his time. He died in May 1729. </p><p>King's years as a bishop were marked by reform and the building of churches and <a href="/wiki/Glebe" title="Glebe">glebe</a> houses, and by the dispensing of charity. He was generally regarded as a man of sense and good judgment, and his political influence was considerable: he was always consulted on judicial appointments and at times seems to have had an effective <a href="/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> over candidates he considered unsuitable. His influence declined after the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Boulter" title="Hugh Boulter">Hugh Boulter</a> as <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Armagh" title="Archbishop of Armagh">Archbishop of Armagh</a> in 1724, as Boulter was also consulted on judicial appointments, and the two could rarely agree on a suitable candidate. </p><p>Boulter's preferment to the <a href="/wiki/See_of_Armagh" class="mw-redirect" title="See of Armagh">See of Armagh</a>, passing over his own more obvious claims, was a bitter disappointment to King. He took petty revenge at their first meeting by refusing to get up from his chair, saying that he was too old to stand; he might reasonably have pointed out instead that he was a martyr to <a href="/wiki/Gout" title="Gout">gout</a>, from which he had suffered for forty years and from which he died five years later. He was a vocal opponent of <a href="/wiki/Wood%27s_halfpence" class="mw-redirect" title="Wood's halfpence">Wood's halfpence</a> during the 1720s.<sup id="cite_ref-Oxford_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oxford-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After King's death, Bishop <a href="/wiki/Theophilus_Bolton" title="Theophilus Bolton">Theophilus Bolton</a> purchased 6,000 of King's books to establish the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Library" title="Bolton Library">Bolton Library</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cashel,_County_Tipperary" title="Cashel, County Tipperary">Cashel, County Tipperary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophical_works">Philosophical works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_King_(bishop)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Philosophical works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a man of letters and philosopher, he wrote <i>The State of the Protestants in Ireland under King James's Government</i> in 1691 and <i>De Origine Mali</i> in 1702. The latter book was translated into English with extensive notes by <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Law" title="Edmund Law">Edmund Law</a> in 1731 as <i>An Essay on the Origin of Evil</i>. It was also subject to discussion by <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bayle" title="Pierre Bayle">Pierre Bayle</a> as well as an influential critical discussion by <a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz" title="Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz">Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz</a>, published as an appendix to Leibniz's <i><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odic%C3%A9e" title="Théodicée">Théodicée</a></i>. </p><p><i>De Origine Mali</i> contains a provocative and original philosophical account of free will that has recently started to attract philosophers' attention.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the context of the debate on free will, King argues that human beings, like God, are endowed with a distinctive faculty of free choice (<i>electio</i> in Latin). This faculty, criticized by Leibniz as an unfounded magical power ("puissance magique"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), can, for King, generate value in the world. Recently, scholars have been debating the details of the process that leads to the generation of value through choice in King's philosophy. While some argue that there is a lacuna in King's explanation between election and action,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> others claim that King gives an account of how desires can provide such a connection.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_King_(bishop)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Oxford-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Oxford_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oxford_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Oxford_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFConnolly" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Connolly, S. 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Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F15605">10.1093/ref:odnb/15605</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=King%2C+William&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F15605&rft.aulast=Connolly&rft.aufirst=S.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+King+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/the-rescue-of-cashel-s-magical-but-mouldering-library-1.2532666">"The rescue of Cashel's magical but mouldering library"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Irish_Times" title="The Irish Times">The Irish Times</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Irish+Times&rft.atitle=The+rescue+of+Cashel%27s+magical+but+mouldering+library&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fculture%2Fheritage%2Fthe-rescue-of-cashel-s-magical-but-mouldering-library-1.2532666&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+King+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harris, James A. <i>Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy</i>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pearce, Kenneth. “William King on Free Will”. <i>Philosophers' Imprint</i>, 19, no: 21 (2019): 1-15. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Greenberg, Sean. “Leibniz on King: Freedom and the Project of the ‘Theodicy’”. Studia Leibnitiana, 40, no. 2 (2008): 205-222, p. 219 </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pearce, Kenneth. “William King on Free Will”. <i>Philosophers' Imprint</i>, 19, no: 21 (2019): 1-15. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Galvagni, Enrico. “William King on election, reason, and desire: a reply to Kenneth Pearce”. <i>British Journal for the History of Philosophy</i>, online first, (2023) <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2214187">https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2214187</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_King_(bishop)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>C. S. King, ed. <i>A great Archbishop of Dublin, William King, D.D., 1650-1729: His autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence</i>; 1906, Longman,Green.</li> <li>Philip O'Regan; <i>Archbishop William King, 1650-1729 and the Constitution in Church and State</i>; 2000, Four Courts Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85182-464-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-85182-464-2">1-85182-464-2</a>.</li> <li>Robert S. Matteson, <i>A large private park: the collection of Archbishop William King 1650–1729</i>. Cambridge: LP Publications, 2003. (Libri Pertinentes, no. 7) 2 vols <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9518811-6-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-9518811-6-7">0-9518811-6-7</a>; co-published with Tempe (Arizona): Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-86698-304-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-86698-304-X">0-86698-304-X</a></li> <li>Fauske, Christopher, ed. <i>Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish Context, 1688-1729</i>; 2004, Four Courts Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85182-681-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-85182-681-5">1-85182-681-5</a>.</li> <li>Fauske, Christopher, <i>A Political Biography of William King</i>; 2011, Chatto and Pickering, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84893-010-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84893-010-0">978-1-84893-010-0</a>.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FABE60;"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland titles</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ezekiel_Hopkins" title="Ezekiel Hopkins">Ezekiel Hopkins</a></div> </td> <td 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