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Sir John Kirk GCMG, KCB, FRS (19 December 1832 – 15 January 1922) was a British physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar, East Africa, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that country, with the aid of his political assistant, Ali bin Saleh bin Nasser Al-Shaiban ...
Sir John Kirk (born Dec. 19, 1832, Barry, near Arbroath, Angus, Scot.—died Jan. 15, 1922, Sevenoaks, Kent, Eng.) was a Scottish physician, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar. The son of a clergyman, Kirk studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, served on the civil medical staff in the ...
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Feb 2, 2009 · Feature. The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans. John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP. John Kirk | Published in History Today Volume 59 Issue 2 February 2009.
Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) was born on December 19, 1832, in Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and served on the civil medical staff during the Crimean War. He was appointed in February 1858 as physician and naturalist for explorer David Livingstone's second expedition.
Step up John Kirk. The latest biographer of John Kirk - Alastair Hazell - makes the mistake of stating that Kirk was born in Barry, in Fife, when it is actually in Angus.This is a shame because his book, The Last Slave Market, is a well-researched account of this important figure who did much personally to end the intolerable anomaly of ...
Jan 27, 2020 · John A. Kirk. January 27, 2020. Dr. John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Kirk was born and educated in the United Kingdom, where he taught at the University of Wales and the University of London before moving to UA Little Rock in the summer of 2010.
Norman John Kirk, generally called John Kirk (born 27 June 1947), is a deceased former New Zealand Member of Parliament for Sydenham, in the South Island. He is the son of Norman Kirk, who was a popular Labour Party Prime Minister.
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