ROBERT MOFFAT D.D.

BORN AT ORMISTON, EAST LOTHIAN ON 21ST DECEMBER, 1795.

DIED AT LEIGH, KENT ON 9TH AUGUST, 1885.

MOFFAT WAS A PIONEER OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (1817 - 1870).

HE TOILED AMID THE HORRORS OF TRIBAL WARFARE AND THROUGH HIS CHRISTIAN CHARACTER WON THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE DREADED MATABELE CHIEF MZILIKAZI. HE WAS THE FIRST WHITE MAN TO ENTER SOUTHERN RHODESIA, PAVING THE WAY FOR HIS SON-IN-LAW DAVID LIVINGSTONE.

MOFFAT TRANSLATED THE BIBLE INTO SECHUANA AND LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN BECHUANALAND AND SOUTHERN RHODESIA.

OF THIS MAN, DISTINGUISHED AS AUTHOR, GARDENER, MISSIONARY, ORGANISER AND PEACMAKER, FIELD MARISCHAL SMUTS SAID

" AMONG MISSIONARIES THERE WAS NONE CREATED,

NONE HOLIER THAN HE."