Editing David Livingstone (section)

==Education==
Livingstone attended Blantyre village school, along with the few other mill children with the endurance to do so despite their 14-hour workday (6 am–8 pm). Having a family with a strong, continuing commitment to study reinforced his education.

At the age of 21, he was excited by a pamphlet his father got from the church setting out [[Karl Gützlaff|Gützlaff's]] call for missionaries to China, with the new concept that missionaries should be trained as medical doctors. His father was persuaded and, like many other students in Scotland, Livingstone was to support himself, with the agreement of the mill management, by working at his old job from Easter to October, outwith term time. He joined [[University of Strathclyde|Anderson's University]], Glasgow, in 1836, studying medicine and chemistry, as well as attending theology lectures by the anti-slavery campaigner Richard Wardlaw at the Congregational Church College, where he may also have studied [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]].{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | pp=9–12}}<ref name="Lawrence">{{cite web |first1=Christopher |last1= Lawrence| editor-last =Wisnicki | editor-first =Adrian S. | editor-last2 =Ward | editor-first2 = Megan | title=Livingstone's Medical Education | website=Livingstone Online | url=https://livingstoneonline.org/life-and-times/livingstones-medical-education |year= 2015 | access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = The University of Glasgow Story : David Livingstone | work = University of Glasgow | date = n.d. | access-date = 12 July 2018 | url = https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0220&type=P | archive-date = 12 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180712154315/https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0220&type=P | url-status = dead }}</ref>
To enter medical school, he needed some knowledge of Latin, and was tutored by a local Roman Catholic man, Daniel Gallagher (later a priest, founder of St Simon's, [[Partick]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=David Livingstone a brief history |url=https://hamiltonurc.org.uk/david-livingstone/ |website=hamiltonurc.org.uk |date=6 September 2011 |access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> Livingstone worked hard, got a good grounding in science and medicine, and made lifelong friends including [[Andrew Buchanan (surgeon)|Andrew Buchanan]] and [[James Young (chemist)|James Young]].<ref name="Lawrence" />{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | pp=13–14}}

The [[London Missionary Society]] (LMS) was at the time the major organisation in the country for missionary work, and unlike others was open to [[Congregational church|Congregationalists]]. He applied to the LMS in October 1837, and in January was sent questions which he answered.{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | p=16}} He got no reply until he was invited to two interviews in August 1838. He was then accepted as a probationary candidate, and given initial training at [[Ongar, Essex|Ongar]], Essex, as the introduction to studies to become a minister within the [[Congregational Union of England and Wales|Congregational Union]] serving under the LMS, rather than the more basic course for an [[artisan]] missionary. At Ongar, he and six other students had tuition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and theology from the Reverend Richard Cecil, who in January 1839 assessed that, despite "heaviness of manner" and "rusticity", Livingstone had "sense and quiet vigour", good temper and substantial character "so I do not like the thought of him being rejected." A month later, he still thought Livingstone "hardly ready" to go on to theological studies at [[Cheshunt College]], and "worthy but remote from brilliant".{{sfn | Jeal | 2013 | pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=HcDR7nTiVAYC&pg=PA18 18–19]}} In June 1839 the LMS directors accepted Livingstone, and agreed to his request to continue studying with Cecil at Ongar until the end of the year, then have LMS support for medical studies in London.{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | pp=19–20}}

To gain necessary clinical training he continued his medical studies at the [[Charing Cross Hospital Medical School]], with his courses covering medical practice, midwifery, and botany.{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | pp=19–20}}
He qualified as a licentiate of the [[Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow|Faculty (now Royal College) of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow]] on 16 November 1840 (in 1857 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsoffacul00duncuoft|title=Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599–1850|last=Duncan|first=Alexander|publisher=MacLehose|year=1896|location=Glasgow|pages=[https://archive.org/details/memorialsoffacul00duncuoft/page/100 100], 293}}</ref> On 20 November 1840 Livingstone was [[Ordination|ordained]] a [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]] of the church, as was another missionary to South Africa, William Ross, in a service at the [[Albion Chapel]], Finsbury. The ordination service was conducted by Cecil and J. J. Freeman.{{sfn | Ross | 2002 | p=20}}<ref>{{cite book | title=The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle | issue=v. 19 | year=1841 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eI6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA50 | access-date=15 March 2022 | page=50}}</ref>