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(Livingstone Cottage)

David Livingstone

(Blantyre, South Lanarkshire 1813 - Chief Chitambo's Village, in present day Zambia 1873)
Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa
(Wikipedia)

artist unknown
1913

Description

Bronze portrait medaillon on a stone plaque in the house where Livingstine write his Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. The plaque was unveiled 25 October 1913 at the centenary of Livingstone's birth by his daughter Mrs. Anna Mary Wilson née Livingstone and his sister-in-law Miss Moffat.

Inscription(s)

born
in
1813

(portrait)

died
in
1873

DAVID LIVINGSTONE
missionary and explorer
lived here in the year 1857

Sculptor

Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

Historic England, Database (Livingstone Cottage Monken Cottage).
Wikipedia, Livingston Cottage and Monken Cottage.
Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Monday 20 October 1913, and Middlesex County Times, Saturday 25 October 1913 (British Newspaper Archive).

Locatie (N 51°39'39" - W 0°11'49") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gblo188; Photograph: 17 March 2019
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