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British colonialist and missionary to Africa (1813–1873)

For other people named David Livingstone, see David Livingstone (disambiguation).

David LivingstoneFRGS FRS (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary^[2] with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa.

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Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family.^[3] 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's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning