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Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Apr 9, 2024 · Henry Morton Stanley, British American explorer of central Africa, famous for his rescue of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone and for his discoveries in and development of the Congo region. Learn more about Stanley’s life and accomplishments in this article.
Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney. December 2011. Henry Morton Stanley, photographed in 1872 at age 31, is best known for his epic search for the missionary David Livingstone, whom he...
Nov 10, 2016 · In November 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley located the missing missionary David Livingstone in the depths of Africa. The famous meeting launched Stanley’s tumultuous career as an...
Oct 31, 2020 · Henry Morton Stanley was a classic example of a 19th-century explorer, and he is best remembered today for his brilliantly casual greeting to a man he had spent months searching for in the wilds of Africa: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”. The reality of Stanley’s unusual life is at times startling.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, orig. John Rowlands, (born Jan. 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales—died May 10, 1904, London, Eng.), British-U.S. explorer of central Africa. An illegitimate child, Stanley grew up partly in a British workhouse; he sailed to the U.S. as a cabin boy in 1859. After becoming a journalist for the New York Herald in ...
From a hotel room in Paris, he ordered Henry Morton Stanley, a newcomer to the Herald, to lead an expedition into the African wilderness to find the explorer, or “bring back all possible...
