page_title: David Livingstone
section_title: Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: David Livingstone / Place names and other memorials / Scotland
caption_attribution_description: English: The statue stands in Cathedral Square.
context_page_description: David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had 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.
  Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab-Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources," he told a friend, "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 was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa.
context_section_description: The David Livingstone Birthplace Museum in Blantyre, Scotland, is a museum in his honour. This is operated by the David Livingstone Trust.
  David Livingstone Memorial Primary School in his birthplace, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  David Livingstone Memorial Church of the Church of Scotland, in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  A statue of Livingstone is sited in Cathedral Square, Glasgow.
  A bust of David Livingstone is among those of famous Scotsmen in the William Wallace Memorial near Stirling, Scotland.
  Strathclyde University, Glasgow (which evolved from Anderson's University, later the Royal College of Science and Technology), commemorates him in the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability and the Livingstone Tower where there is a statue of him in the building's foyer.
  The David Livingstone Room in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. A portrait of Livingstone by Thomas Annan (a photograph painted over in oils) hangs outside the room.
  The David Livingstone (Anderson College) Memorial Prize in Physiology commemorates him at the University of Glasgow.
  Livingstone Place, a street in the Marchmont neighbourhood of Edinburgh.
  Livingstone Street in Addiewell.
  A memorial plaque commemorating the centenary of Livingstone's birth was dedicated in St. James's Congregational Church in Hamilton, the church he attended as a boy.
  Livingstone lived at 17 Burnbank Road in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, for a short time in 1862. The house still stands and has a memorial plaque outside. He was awarded the Freedom of the Town of Hamilton.
caption: Livingstone statue, Glasgow
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