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John Kirk | |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
19 December 1832 | | Born. |
1854 | | Studied medicine and Botany at Edinburgh; MD. and L.R.C.S. |
1855 | 1857 | Civil medical staff in the Crimea. |
February 1858 | 1863 | Physician and botanist to Livingstones's Zambesi expedition. |
June 1866 | | Surgeon to political agency in Zanzibar and Vice-consul. |
14 March 1867 | | Married Miss Helen Cook (mother of his six children). |
1870 | 1873 | Consul at Zanzibar. |
1873 | 1886 | Consul-General at Zanzibar. |
1879 | | C.M.G. (Companion of St. Michael and St. George). |
5 September 1881 | | K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander of St Michael and St George). |
2 February 1886 | | G.C.M.G. (Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George) |
1887 | | Fellow of the Royal Society. |
1890 | | L.L.D. (Doctor Laws), Edinburgh. |
1890 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). |
1897 | | Sc.D. (Doctor of Science), Cambridge. |
1898 | | D.C.L. (Doctor of Civic Law), Oxford. |
15 January 1922 | | Died. |
Literature: (DNB). |