David Livingstone penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africaand subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa". His meeting with Henry Morton Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde under
David Livingstone in Blantyre, Scotland. The following species have been named in honour of David Livingstone: Livingstone has been portrayed by M.A. Wetherell in "Livingstone" (1925), Percy Marmont in "David Livingstone" (1936), Sir Cedric Hardwicke in "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939), Bernard Hill in "Mountains of the Moon" (1990) and Sir Nigel Hawthorne in the TV movie "Forbidden Territory" (1997). The 1949 comedy film "Africa Screams" is the story of a dimwitted clerk named Stanley Livington (played by Lou Costello), who is mistaken for a famous African explorer and recruited to lead a treasure hunt. The character's name appears to be a play