David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffatt missionary family. Livingstone came to have 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. As a result, Livingstone became one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.
Livingstone in 1864
Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings
Zulu dance, at Shupanga on the Zambesi to collect tribute from Portuguese merchants.
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 members, with its work reaching the public through publications, research groups and lectures.
Main entrance from the Exhibition Road extension, with the original Lowther Lodge to the right
Lowther Lodge, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) headquarters, designed by Richard Norman Shaw
2012 Poster for exhibition in the glass Pavilion on centenary of Scott's final expedition to the South Pole