Sir John Kirk 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.

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Occupation: explorer, botanist, physician, physicist
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: December 19, 1832
Died: January 15, 1922

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John Kirk

Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922)

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