Added TheGlasgowStory: David Livingstone

TheGlasgowStory 

Skip Navigation / Jump to Content

Featured Images

Glasgow Shipwrights' Society
Glasgow Shipwrights' Society

Finnieston Crane
Finnieston Crane

David Livingstone

RCPSG, Illustrations in The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow by Tom Gibson

*Open in New Window
David Livingstone

A portrait of Dr David Livingstone (1813-1873), held by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This work was created by painting over an enlargement of a photograph taken by Thomas Annan in 1864.

David Livingstone was born in Blantyre and studied at Anderson's College of Medicine before going to London where he was ordained a Congregational minister. He was admitted to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow in 1840.

Having initially intended to work as a missionary in China, Livingstone travelled instead to southern Africa in 1840. This marked the beginning of his well-documented life as a missionary and explorer on that continent.

Reference: RCPSG, Illustrations used in The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow by Tom Gibson

Reproduced with the permission of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Keywords:
Anderson's College of Medicine, doctors, explorers, Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, medicine, missionaries, portraits, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, surgeons



Quick Search


Photo Album

You have 1 image in your photo album.

View Photo Album

Log-In (Optional)

username:
password:
Not a user? Register now for FREE!

Other Options