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David Livingstone
Portrait of Scottish missionary. physician, and explorer David Livingstone, albumen silver print by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1857; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
To prepare for his career as a medical missionary, David Livingstone studied Greek, theology, and medicine for two years in Glasgow while continuing to work part-time in the cotton mill.1