Basil Charles King

Basil Charles King FRSE (1915–1985) was a British geologist and author. He won the Geological Society of London’s Bigsby Medal for 1959.

Life

King was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds.[1] He studied geology at Durham University, graduating in 1936 with first-class honours.[1][2] He then worked as a demonstrator at Bedford College before moving to Africa as a member of the Uganda Geology Survey. He eventually returned to the United Kingdom as senior lecturer at Glasgow University.[1]

He began lecturing in geology at Glasgow University and later received a professorship at Bedford College, London in 1956.[1] In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Neville George, John Weir, George Walter Tyrrell, and Arthur Holmes. [3] He became a member of the Geological Society of London in 1949.[4]

His health failing, King retired and moved to Arran. He died on 11 September 1985.

Family

He was married to Dorothy Margaret Wells in 1939.

Publications
  • The Geology of the Osi Area (1949)
  • The Napak Area of Southern Karamoja, Uganda (1949)
  • The Form of Beinn an Dubhaich Granite on Skye (1960)
  • The History of the Alkaline Volcanoes and Intrusive Complexes of Eastern Uganda and Western Kenya (1969) co-written with Michael John Le Bas and Diana Stephanie Sutherland
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References
  1. "Professor Basil Charles King" (PDF). Proceedings of the Geological Society of Glasgow: 8–9. 1986.
  2. "Calendar 1936-7". Durham University Archives. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  4. "Bye-Laws and List of Members". Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society. 35 (269): ix–xlviii. 1965. Bibcode:1965MinM...35D...9.. doi:10.1180/minmag.1965.035.269.01.
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