Basil Charles King
Basil Charles King was a British geologist.
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 Catacol on the Isle of Arran in 1977. He died on 11 September 1985.