Kirk
| Dr Kirk | |||||||||
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| Born | 1832 | ||||||||
| Died | 1922 | ||||||||
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naturalist administrative medical botanist | ||||||||
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John Kirk CMG KCB (December 19, 1832 – January 15, 1922) was a Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar. He was born in Barry, Angus, near Arbroath, Scotland and is buried in St. Nicholas's churchyard in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. He earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh. He was a keen botanist throughout his life and was highly regarded by successive directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: William Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thistleton-Dyer.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1890
a physician, naturalist and explorer from Scotland, trained at the University of Edinburgh. Kirk served in the Crimean War as a physician, then accompanied Livingstone on his Second Zambezi expedition from 1858-1863. Went to Zanzibar as a medical officer, eventually becoming Consul General in 1873. Vice-President of the RGS 1891-4. Published widely on Botany and Zoology. Burton maintained a friendly correspondence with Kirk (see volume 2) and mentioned him frequently in his works concerning Africa.
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A description of some crania of the Manganjo race of Negroes on the River Shire in South Tropical Africa, with an account of the tribe Read 22 mar 1864