Alfred Merriweather

Alfred Musgrave Merriweather CBE, was a Scottish missionary in Botswana, who was a member of the National Assembly of Botswana and its first Speaker. He helped improve public health in Botswana.

Biography

Merriweather was born in Yorkshire, and lived later in Glasgow.
He moved to Molepolole in Bechuanaland Protectorate in 1944 to work in the Scottish Livingstone Hospital. His medical reputation allowed him to become medical adviser to Sir Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana. Merriweather was elected as the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, and as the first speaker of the National Assembly when Botswana became independent.
He gained a PhD in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1956.
He died in Molepolole in 1999.