Records of the Mungo Park Commemoration Committee 1970-1972

Mungo Park Commemoration Committee (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Mungo Park Commemoration Committee

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An appeal was launched in September 1970 to raise funds for the celebration the following year of the bicentenary of the birth of Mungo Park (1771-1806). The Committee was chaired by Professor G. A. Shepperson, Chair of Commonwealth and American History at Edinburgh University. The explorer Dr. Mungo Park was born at Foulshiels, near Selkirk, in 1771. After studying medicine at Edinburgh University, Park was appointed as assistant surgeon on an expedition to Sumatra duri...

Park, Mungo, 1771-1806

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Shepperson George Albert b 1922

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