 Sir John Kirk (December 19, 1832 – January 15, 1922) Image by Unknown authorUnknown author, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Red KirkJohn Kirk (explorer) John Kirk (explorer) British physician, naturalist and administrator (1832–1922) Sir John Kirk GCMG, KCB, FRS (19 December 1832 – 15 January 1922) was a British physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and a British administrator in Zanzibar, East Africa, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that country. John Kirk Early life and education He was born on 19 December 1832 in Barry, Angus, near Arbroath, Scotland, the second of four children of the Rev John Kirk (1795-1858) and his wife Christian Guthrie Carnegie (1803-1865). Kirk earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, presenting his thesis On Functional Disease of the Heart. Kirk worked for a year as a doctor in… (Source: Wikipedia)
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