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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, scientifi…
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culture · British colonialist and missionary · explorer · physician writer · geographer · writer · missionary · also David Livingstone, Livingstone
Born 19 March 1813 · Died 1 May 1873 · Q48373
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2026· 8 entries
Motor Trade News: Arnold Clark acquires Seat and Cupra dealer W Livingstone
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Armagh I: Armagh’s Chloe Bruce and Jessica Livingstone among SRC students celebrating A-Level success
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Nyasa Times: Minister Ben Phiri hails newly rehabilitated road that will boost farming, unlock David Livingstone grave site
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TipRanks: Livingstone Health AGM Backs Streamlined Strategy and Board Reappointments
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The Telegraph: The world owes a debt of gratitude to the nation of Nicola Sturgeon and David Livingstone
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Cricket World: The Hundred: Livingstone and Brevis Power London Spirit to Seven-Wicket Win
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BBC: The Hundred highlights: Livingstone and Brevis inspire London Spirit to win over Birmingham Phoenix
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2002· 1 entry
Livingstone was ranked 98th among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote
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1932· 1 entry
Several items related to Livingstone were put on display at a Missionary Exhibition in Bromley: a piece of wood from the tree under which his heart had been buried plus slave chains and irons brought to England by Living
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1913· 2 entries
A plaque was unveiled on Livingstone Cottage in Hadley Green, High Barnet commemorating Livingstone's birth
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To celebrate the centenary of Livingstone's birth, the principal of which took place in the Royal Albert Hall
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1876· 1 entry
At the age of 27 from bilharzia, a disease he contracted as a child living in Africa
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1874· 1 entry
Leaves out the context of Livingstone's earlier comments about Kirk and bad behaviour of the hired Banyan men, and omits the villagers' earlier violent resistance to Arab slavers, so it portrays the villagers as passive
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1873· 1 entry
Died 1873-05-01.
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1864· 1 entry
After the government ordered the recall of the expedition
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1861· 1 entry
The Colonial Office provided a new wooden paddle survey vessel, Pioneer, which took the Universities' Mission to Central Africa led by Bishop Charles MacKenzie up the Shire River to found a mission
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1860· 1 entry
The Universities' Mission to Central Africa was founded at his request
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1858· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1858).
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1857· 4 entries
Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1857).
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By John Murray, making it a bestselling travelogue
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Was made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty)
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And in May he was appointed as her majesty's consul with a roving commission, extending through Mozambique to the areas west of it
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1855· 1 entry
Won Patron’s Medal (1855).
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1852· 1 entry
After sending his family to Britain, Livingstone travelled north to the village of Linyanti on the Zambezi river, located roughly midway between the east and west coast of the continent, where Sekeletu, chief of the Kolo
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1850· 1 entry
Was recognised by the Royal Geographical Society which presented him a chronometer watch for 'his journey to the great lake of Ngami'
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1849· 1 entry
Crossed the Kalahari Desert and reached Lake Ngami
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1847· 1 entry
Because of drought and the proximity of the Boers and his desire "to move on to the regions beyond"
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1845· 2 entries
Endured very poor health, and died of malaria on 27 April 1862
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After irreconcilable differences emerged between him and his fellow missionary, Rogers Edwards, and because the Bakgatla were proving indifferent to the Gospel
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1842· 1 entry
Livingstone went on two treks with African companions; the principals were mission members Paul and Mebalwe, a deacon
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1836· 1 entry
Studying medicine and chemistry as well as attending theology lectures by the anti-slavery campaigner Richard Wardlaw at the Congregational Church College, where he may also have studied Greek
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1832· 1 entry
Read Philosophy of a Future State, written by Thomas Dick, and he found the rationale that he needed to reconcile faith and science and, apart from the Bible, this book was perhaps his greatest philosophical influence
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1828· 1 entry
Proposing that Christianity would always bring "civilisation" including free trade and free labour
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1813· 1 entry
Born 1813-03-19.
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