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Sir Samuel White Baker KCB FRS FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.
Sir Samuel White Baker (born June 8, 1821, London, Eng.—died Dec. 30, 1893, Sanford Orleigh, Devon) was an English explorer who, with John Hanning Speke, helped to locate the sources of the Nile River. The son of a merchant, Baker lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (1843–45) and in Ceylon (1846–55) before traveling through the ...
Mar 8, 2019 · They might have paused to consider the labours of the company’s founder, Samuel Baker. 275 years ago, Sam stepped onto the rostrum for his first auction. He had 457 lots ahead of him – “Books in all branches of Polite Literature” from the collection of the Irish politician Sir John Stanley.
Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored the tributaries of the Upper Nile River and discovered Lake Albert. An abolitionist after a fashion, he sought to suppress the slave trade in the southern Sudan and bought a woman from the white ...
English adventurer Samuel White Baker makes a blood pact with King Rionga near Lake Albert during an expedition to suppress the slave trade in 1872. The glamorous young couple quickly became a Victorian sensation, traveling the world living out breathtaking, swashbuckling adventures.
May 7, 2017 · In 1869, Sir Samuel Baker set off from Egypt in an expedition to abolish slavery in the upper reaches of the Nile. My great great grandfather Charles Robert Owen Jarvis was on that expedition, acting as the Chief Shipwright.
May 9, 2018 · Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was an English explorer, author, and administrator who explored the Upper Nile and discovered Lake Albert. He also sought to suppress the slave trade in the southern Sudan. Samuel Baker was born in London on June 8, 1821.
