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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. He studied geology at Durham University, graduating in 1936 with first-class honours. 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.

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

His health failing, King retired and moved to Arran in 1977. 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 Ard Bheinn Area of the Central Igneous Complex of Arran (1954)
• 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

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
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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