Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston

Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston (1754 – 17 April 1799) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was styled Viscount Kingsborough between 1768 and 1797.

He was the son of Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston and Jane Caulfeild. From 1767 to 1768 he was educated at Eton College. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Cork County between 1783 and 1797, and served as a Governor of County Cork in 1789. In 1797 he succeeded to his father's titles and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. Between 1797 and his death he was Custos Rotulorum of Roscommon.

On 18 May 1798 he was tried by his peers in the Irish House of Lords after allegedly murdering Colonel Henry Gerald FitzGerald, who'd been in a contentious relationship with his daughter. He was acquitted as no witnesses came forward.

He married Caroline FitzGerald, daughter of Richard FitzGerald and Margaret King, on 5 December 1769. Together they had nine children:

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