| Authorised form of name | Cox; Keith Gordon (1933 - 1998) |
| Dates | 1933 - 1998 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Birmingham |
| Date of birth | 25/04/1933 |
| Date of death | 27/08/1998 |
| Activity | Education:
King Edward VI School, Birmingham; Leeds Grammar School; Queen's College, Oxford on a Hastings Scholarship (1950) (first class honours, geology, 1956)
Career:
Evacuated to Toronto, Canada (1940); returned to England (1945); served National Service in the Royal Engineers in Berlin and Hamburg; first Oppenheimer Scholar, Research Institute of African Studies, Leeds University; University Lecturer, Grant Institute of Geology, Edinburgh University (1962); Royal Society European Fellowship, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany (1971); Lecturer in Geology, Oxford (1972); Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford (1973); lost at sea during a sailing holiday a month before his retirement (1998) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1988 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| Relationships | Son of Ernest Gordon (later Sir Gordon) Cox; married (1960) Gillian Palmer |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 91-104, plate, by J D Bell |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71472976 |
| Code | NA4009 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1988/07 | Cox, Keith Gordon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1982 |