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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 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...
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.
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,...
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.
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.
abolitionist, John Kirk. Born in Scotland in 1832, Kirk received his MD from Edinburgh University, spent time in the Crimea, and then signed on as physician and botanist to the second Zambezi expedition of David Livingstone, a man zealous to bring Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce to Africa, and above all to
Dr. John Kirk (1832-1923) Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition, 1858-1864. An Album of photographs by Kirk and others including eighteen albumen prints by Kirk taken on the Zambezi Expedition, nineteen views in Sydney and New South Wales by H. King and thirty-one views taken in the Crimea, Poland, France, Switzerland and Madeira by Kirk and various ...
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.
