David Livingstone ( 1813 - 1873 )

Birth: Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland (19 March 1813) Death: Old Chitambo, shore of Lake Tanganyika (01 May 1873) Burial: Westminster Abbey, London Education: LLD; DCL Career: Worked as a piecer in a cotton factory (from age 10); became a cotton spinner (aged 19); missionary for the London Missionary Society (1838); ordained as a missionary (1840); went to Africa, through which he travelled extensively; undertook and expedition to Lake Ngami (1849); returned to England (1856); Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Quilimane and returned to Africa (1858); travelled along the Zambezi river; returned to Britain (1864); undertook further African exploration at the suggestion of Sir Roderick Murchison (1865) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/06/1858.