Sir George King (1840-1909), was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901.
George King (January 23, 1919 - July 12, 1997) was born in Wellington in the English county of Shropshire. He claimed that as a child he had discovered an ability to heal through the radiation of spiritual power. This ostensible discovery would come to define his adult life.
He served with distinction in the National Fire Service in London during the war. After it ended he decided to throw himself into the study of Yoga, especially its higher forms, which he would practice for 8 to 12 hours a day despite holding down full-time jobs. He became known as a healer and psychic and, with a group of other like-minded people, was attempting to find a cure for cancer.
In 1954, he had an experience that was to change his life. One Saturday morning in May, while drying some dishes, a loud, apparently physical voice told him: "Prepare yourself! You are to become the Voice of Interplanetary Parliament." While he had no inkling what this could mean, he knew that this message was something he could not ignore. He stopped his job and founded a new religious movement, the Aetherius Society to convey the messages of these extraterrestrials.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him in the early 1960s by an American religious organisation, after he went to the United States in 1959. There he founded the American Headquarters of The Aetherius Society. For the rest of life the USA was to be his main abode, though he would spend time at other centres of the Society, principally London. He and George Adamski, are probably the best-remembered of the early 1950s contactees. Others included Truman Bethurum, Orfeo Angelucci, Buck Nelson, George Van Tassel and Daniel Fry. Like almost all the other contactees of the era, he taught that all the solar planets were inhabited by superhuman but manlike beings of tremendous spiritual development.
George King (1899 - 1966) was an English actors' agent, film director, producer and screenplay writer. He helmed several of Tod Slaughter's melodramas, including 1936's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
George Smith King (August 16, 1928-October 5, 2006) was the men's basketball coach at Purdue from 1965 to 1972. During his tenure, he compiled a 109-64 record. He won a Big Ten Championship, and took the school to its only modern National Championship appearance in 1969. He served as the school's athletic director following his coaching stint. He is a member of the Purdue Athletic Hall of Fame. He previously served as the head basketball coach at West Virginia, from 1961 to 1965, where he compiled a 102-43 record.
King played professional basketball during the 1950s as a member of the Syracuse Nationals and Cincinnati Royals. He was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
