David Livingstone
David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status as a Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion.
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Background
- Born in
- Blantyre
- Educated at
- Imperial College School of MedicineGilbertfield House SchoolUniversity of GlasgowCharing Cross Hospital Medical School
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society🏆 Patron’s Medal🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society🏆 Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
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"People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we c…"
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Timeline
1813
Born
Birth1873
Died
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