Biography of Mungo Park

Mungo Park


Mungo Park
Seventh of 13 children.

Date (from)	(Date to)	Event
10 September 1771		Born (Fowlshiels, near Selkirk).
1786		Apprenticed to Thomas Anderson, surgeon, of Selkirk.
October 1789		Entered Edinburgh University.
1791		Diploma in Surgery.
February 1792		Assistant medical officer, Worcester, East Indiaman.
22 May 1795		Sailed from Portsmouth on expedition to the Niger, sponsored by the African Association.
5 July 1795		Arrived at Pisania, a British factory two hundred miles up the Gambia.
2 December 1795		Left Pisania.
10 June 1797		Returned to Pisania after difficult journey to Silla.
2 August 1799		Married the eldest daughter of his old master, Anderson of Selkirk.
October 1801		In medical practice at Peebles.
30 January 1805		Sailed from Portsmouth on new expedition to the Niger.
29 April 1805		Arrived at Pisania, 40 Europeans in his party.
19 August 1805		Reached Bambakoo on the Niger and proceeded down the river to Sansanding.
19 November 1805		Left Sansanding with four remaining members of his party.
1806		Killed, apparently in fight at Bousa.
Literature: (DNB).