Basil Charles King
Basil Charles King | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 June 1915 |
| Died | 11 September 1985 (aged 70) |
| Spouse |
Dorothy Margaret Wells
(m. 1939) |
| Awards | Bigsby Medal (1959) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Durham University (BSc) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Glasgow University Bedford College, London |
Basil Charles King FRSE (1915–1985) was a British geologist.
Early life and education
King was educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, and went on to study geology at Durham University. He graduated in 1936 with first-class honours.
Career and research
After graduating, King worked as a demonstrator at Bedford College, London, before joining the Geological Survey of Uganda. He later returned to Britain and joined the geology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became a senior lecturer. In 1956, he returned to Bedford College as professor of geology.
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; they later awarded him the Bigsby Medal in 1959.
His health failing, King retired and moved to Catacol on the Isle of Arran in 1977.
Personal life
King married Dorothy Margaret Wells in 1939, who predeceased him. They had four children, including the seismologist Geoffrey King.
He died on 11 September 1985.
Selected publications
- King, Basil Charles (1954). "The Ard Bheinn Area of the Central Igneous Complex of Arran". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 110 (1–4): 323–355. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1954.110.01-04.15.
- ——— (1960). "The Form of the Beinn an Dubhaich Granite, Skye". Geological Magazine. 97 (4): 326–333. doi:10.1017/S0016756800061598.
- ———; Le Bas, Michael John; Sutherland, Diana Stephanie (1972). "The History of the Alkaline Volcanoes and Intrusive Complexes of Eastern Uganda and Western Kenya". Journal of the Geological Society. 128 (2): 173–190. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.128.2.0173.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Professor Basil Charles King" (PDF). Proceedings of the Geological Society of Glasgow: 8–9. 1986.
- ↑ "Calendar 1936-7". Durham University Archives. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Willitts-King, Sophia (22 July 2026). "Geoffrey King obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
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