David Livingston

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David Livingston

• By Arran and Daniel

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When he was born

• David Livingston was born in Glasgow the 19th of
  March 1813

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Work

• At the age of 10 he stared work in a cotton mill,
  with school lessons in the evening.
• In 1836 he started studying medicine and theology
  in Glasgow and decided to be a missionary doctor.
• In 1841 he was posted on the edge of the Kalahari
  Desert in south Africa.
• In 1845 he married Marry Moffat, daughter of a
  fellow missionary.

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Why he was successful

• he had an education
• Scotland had the best medical schools
• He had a spirit of adventure which took him to
  south africa.

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When he died

• His heath had been poor for years he died on the
  1st of May 1873
• After nothing was heard from him after many
  months Henry Stanley an explorer and a journalist
  set out to find him.
• His body was taken back to England and he was
  buried in Westminester Abbey