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David Livingstone FRGS FRS (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneering Christian missionary affiliated with the London Missionary Society, as well as an explorer in Africa. He was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, a member of the notable 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone achieved a legendary status as a Protestant missionary martyr, embodying a working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational narrative, as well as serving as a scientific investigator, explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery advocate, and proponent of British commercial and colonial expansion. Consequently, he became one of the most celebrated British figures of the late 19th-century Victorian era.

Livingstone's renown as an explorer and his intense desire to uncover the sources of the Nile stemmed from his belief that solving this long-standing mystery would enhance his influence, enabling him to put an end to the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. He expressed to a friend, "The Nile sources are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power with which I hope to remedy an immense evil." His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed marked the apex of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial expansion in Africa. Simultaneously, his missionary journeys, "disappearance," and eventual death in Africa—along with his posthumous elevation to national hero status in 1874—led to the establishment of several significant central African Christian missionary initiatives during the era of the European "Scramble for Africa," a period during which nearly all of Africa came under European control for decades.