KING, Cecil Campbell (1878-1940), partner in the firm of George, Moorhouse & King of Toronto, was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England on 24 November 1878 and was articled in 1894 to John S. Corder, an architect in Ipswich. From 1897 to 1899 he was employed as assistant in the Architect's Department for the Hornsey District Council and then moved to London in late 1899 to join the office of C. Stanley Peach (1858-1934) a talented Edwardian architect who designed many of the early electrical generating stations in the London region. King emigrated to Canada in 1904 and worked in Stratford, Ont. for two years supervising the construction of the Armoury Building for the federal Department of Public Works. In 1906 he moved to Toronto and worked in the office of Darling & Pearson where he was given responsibility for drawing plans for the completion of St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, Ulster Street at Manning Avenue (1907-08). It was with this commission that King developed his knowledge and appreciation of the refinements of ecclesiastical architecture, a skill which he brought to many later projects such as Christ Church, Deer Park (1922-23) and Yorkminster Baptist Church, Yonge Street at Heath Street (1927-28).
From 1908 until 1919 he assisted George M. Miller with major works including the Imperial Life Insurance Building, Victoria Street (1911). In late 1919 he was invited to become a partner with Allan George and Walter N. Moorhouse of Toronto and remained with them until 1935 when he left the partnership (see list of works under George, Moorhouse & King). He died in Toronto on 15 February 1940 (obituary in the Globe & Mail [Toronto], 16 Feb. 1940, 5; Telegram [Toronto], 16 Feb. 1940, 27; Saturday Night Magazine [Toronto], 24 Feb. 1940, 1). A photographic portrait of C.C. King appeared in the Toronto Daily Star, 7 Feb. 1929, 3.
MILLBANK, ONT., Grace Anglican Church, 1905-06 (inf. from the Stratford-Perth Archives)
TORONTO, ONT., Glenmount Methodist Church, Gerrard Street East at Golfview Avenue, 1916 (Const., ix, May 1916, 170)
(with Edward G. Sherwood) PETERBOROUGH, ONT., St. James Methodist Church, Romaine Street at Aylmer Street, 1916-17 (Peterborough Examiner, 28 July 2018; inf. Scott Edwards)