Bryan Earle King, Fellow of Pembroke College from 1928 to 1974, was born at Basseterre on St Kitts in the West Indies on 22 November 1906, and he died there on 12 June 1987. King went to the grammar school on Antigua, and in 1924 he came up to Pembroke on an Islands Scholarship to read Law. King became a University Lecturer at Cambridge in Jurisprudence in 1934. He helped to form the West Indian Students' Centre, of whose board he was chairman from 1963 to 1969.