David Livingstone Statue Cathedral Square Glasgow Scotland

Tour Scotland early Summer 4K travel video of the David Livingstone statue in the Cathedral Square on ancestry, history visit to Glasgow. David Livingstone ,was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre/ He was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th century Victorian era. He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working class rags to riches inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab Swahili slave trade. " The Nile sources, " he told a friend, " are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power with which I hope to remedy an immense evil." His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, " disappearance ", and eventual death in Africa‍, and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874‍, led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European Scramble for Africa. His meeting with Henry Morton Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation " Dr Livingstone, I presume ? " Livingstone died on 1 May 1873 at the age of 60 in Chief Chitambo's village at Ilala, southeast of Lake Bangweulu, in present day Zambia, from malaria and internal bleeding due to dysentery. His loyal attendants Chuma and Susi removed his heart and buried it under a tree near the spot where he died, which has been identified variously as a Mvula tree or a Baobab tree. That site, now known as the Livingstone Memorial, lists his date of death as 4 May, the date reported, and carved into the tree's trunk, by Chuma and Susi; but most sources consider 1 May, the date of Livingstone's final journal entry, as the correct one.

The Livingstone surname is habitational, derived from a place named Livingstone in the parish of Linlithgow, West Lothian. The earliest progenitor of the Clan was Livingus, who was at least a noble. Some historians even say that he was a knight of the Hungarian court, who accompanied Margaret, wife of King Malcolm Ceanmore of Scotland, on her journey to Scotland. Spelling variations of the name include: Livingston, Levinson, Livingstone, Livington, Levinston, Levingston, and Lewynston.

Malcolm Livingstone,a Scottish convict from Glasgow, was transported aboard the Asia on September 3rd, 1820, settling in New South Wales, Australia; Janet Livingstone, aged 19, a farm servant, arrived in South Australia in 1854 aboard the ship Marion; Alex Livingstone, a Scottish settler travelled from Greenock aboard the ship Philip Laing arriving in Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 15th April 1848; William Livingstone, arrived in New Jersey, America, in 1685; Charles Ezeldel Livingstone, landed in Mississippi, America, in 1876.

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