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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.
Feb 2, 2009 · John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP. On February 12th, 1909 – the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth – a group of 60 activists, both black and white, signed a petition issuing ‘The Call’ for America to rededicate itself to the ideals of racial justice that ...
John Kirk returned to Britain in 1863, but three years later he was back in a different part of Africa, appointed as a medical officer in Zanzibar. He soon became Assistant Consul and then Resident.
Feb 15, 2012 · Dr John Kirk was appointed medical officer to the British Consulate in Zanzibar in 1866. Kirk was a pragmatist, and through a mixture of guile and perseverance, he finally contrived a way...
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 .
Dr John Kirk (1832-1922) was a keen botanist and naturalist, and a valued member of David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition of 1858-1863. Kirk's photographs were perhaps his greatest contribution to the African expedition, and resulted from his role as the expedition's unofficial photographer.
Jun 23, 2011 · The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade. John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous,...
Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S., M.D., is one of my heroes and was one of the best diplomatists ever to leave England. He was a first rate naturalist and very many of his plants are at Kew often accompanied by valuable paintings and sketches made in the field.
Jan 1, 2011 · John Kirk was a Scottish doctor who wound up as Zanzibar's acting consul at a time when British political pressures were mounting to end the Arab slave trade - although the East India Company found it advantagious to ignore it.
