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Livingstone, David ( 1813–1873 ), explorer and missionary, was born on 19 March 1813 at Blantyre, Lanarkshire. He was the second son of Neil Livingstone (1788–1856) and his wife, Agnes (1782–1865), daughter of David Hunter. Neil's father, also Neil, had been a tenant farmer on the island of Ulva, off Mull, who in 1792 had left with his ...
Mar 18, 2013 · Dr. David Livingstone, a Bicentenary. Scientist, explorer, missionary, humanitarian, 19 March 1813–1 May 1873. Two hundred years ago the remarkable Dr. David Livingstone was born in the small ...
David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south of Glasgow on 19 March 1813. At 10 he began working in the local cotton mill, with school lessons in the evenings. In 1836, he began studying medicine ...
Aug 24, 2023 · Young David Livingstone was such a faithful and valued worker in the cotton mill that his employer agreed to let him work six months and then attend medical school six months. In his explorations, Livingstone was expert at "shooting the sun" to determine his geographical longitude and latitude, and on his explorations always sketched detailed ...
David Livingstone, perhaps the best known missionary and explorer of the Victorian period, was born in 1813 to parents Neil and Agnes Livingstone. He began life in Blantyre, a small town near Glasgow on the river Clyde where the cotton mill was the major employer.
David Livingstone, the famous Scottish missionary and explorer, was born on 19th March 1813 and died at Ilala in the centre of Africa in May 1873. On hearing of his death A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster (no relation to Henry Morton Stanley who "found" Livingstone) wrote to the President of the (Royal) Geographical Society offering burial in ...
May 1, 2023 · David Livingstone (1813–73) is known as a missionary, explorer, and abolitionist. He was the first missionary to bring the gospel to my beloved country, Malawi, in 1859. He also explored routes that would open Africa for trade with the rest of the world. Inspired by a British member of Parliament, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Livingstone was ...
