John Moffat

John Smith Moffat (1835–1918) was a British missionary and imperial agent in southern Africa, the son of missionary Robert Moffat and Mary Moffat. He was the brother-in-law of missionary explorer David Livingstone. He is known for his various publications and essays detailing his journeys and experiences in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

Like his famous father, Moffat was a Congregationalist minister affiliated with the London Missionary Society but he became involved in British colonial missionary work, particularly in Matabeleland, later part of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. With a subsidy from David Livingstone he was provided the money to marry Emily Unwin and go with her to South Africa. His missionary work included helping to start the first mission in Matabeleland in 1859 at Inyati. In 1865 he took over the running of his father's mission in Kuruman. In 1879 he resigned from the missionary society and joined the British Bechuanaland colonial service.

Books in English Travels in the Eastern Mediterranean first published 1889