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Dr Livingstone I presume?

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Source: Wikipedia (Tim Rogers)   The other day I watched an episode of Wild Frank in the footsteps of Livingstone. Here is a summary of the life of the famous explorer: Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the ' Scramble for Africa'. 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 and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In 1841, he was posted to the edge   of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. In 1845, he married Mary Moffat, daughter of a fellow missionary. Livingstone became convinced of his mission to reach new peoples in the interior of Africa and introduce them to Christianity, as well as free ing them from slavery. It was this which inspired his explorations. In 1849 a