page_title: George King (botanist)
section_title: Personal life and last years
hierarchical_section_title: George King (botanist) / Personal life and last years
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Sir George King, St Machar's Cathedral
context_page_description: Sir George King KCIE FRS FLS VMH was a British botanist who was appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and became the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. He was recognised for his work in the cultivation of cinchona and for setting up a system for the inexpensive distribution of quinine throughout India through the postal system.
context_section_description: King married Jane Anne Nicol (1845-1898) in 1868. Jane fell ill and died on the way back to England in 1898. The loss was a blow and in the following years King lost an eye due to a ruptured vessel and he increasing fell ill. He reflected on the history of botany in India at the 69th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1899. He died of a seizure at San Remo on 12 February 1909.
  He is buried in the cemetery in San Remo but is memorialised on the grave of his wife in St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.
caption: Memorial to Sir George King, St Machar's Cathedral
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