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Mungo Park lived from 11 September to December or January A native of Selkirkshire, he made his name as an early explorer of the African continent. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Mungo Park was born at Foulshiels near Selkirk, where his father was a successful farmer.
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The seventh of a family of thirteen he was well educated. After leaving school he took up an apprenticeship with a surgeon in Selkirk, then spent the three years from to gaining his formal qualification as a surgeon.
Park's first job was as an assistant-surgeon on board the East India ship Worcester. While on board he made a trip to Sumatra and after returning to Scotland produced an academic paper describing eight previously unknown fishes he had found there.
In Park applied to the Africa Association to mount an expedition to build on the work of Major Daniel Houghton, who had gone to Africa in to
