Robert Moffatt 

Robert Moffatt (1795-1883) served as a missionary to South Africa for the London Missionary Society, 1817-1870. He returned to England on furlough in 1839, at which time he supervised the printing of the New Testament and Psalms into the Sechwana language. He traveled and preached throughout England 1840-1842, meeting a young David Livingstone in the process. He sailed for South Africa on 30 January 1843, remaining there until 1870, when he returned to England in retirement. In 1857 he completed the translation of the Old Testament in Sechwana. See Albert Peel, A Hundred Eminent Congregationalists 1530-1924 (London: Independent Press, 1927), 84-85.