Basil Charles King

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.

He was married to Dorothy Margaret Wells in 1939.

• 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