Biography henry m stanley

Welsh journalist and explorer (1841–1904)

Sir Henry Morton StanleyGCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American^[1][2][a] explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1897, and served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900.

More than a century after his death, Stanley's legacy remains the subject of enduring controversy. Although he personally had high regard for many of the native African people who accompanied him on his expeditions,^{[3]: 10–11} the exaggerated accounts of corporal punishment and brutality in his books fostered a public reputation as a hard-driving, cruel leader,^{[3]: 201–202} in contrast to the supposedly more humanitarian Livingstone

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Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Chemist Morton Stanley
Journalist essential explorer
Born	John Rowlands (1841-01-28)28 January 1841 Denbigh, Wales, UK
Died	10 May 1904(1904-05-10) (aged 63) London, England, UK
Awards	Vega Medal(1883)

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Stanley was MP schedule Lambeth Northerly from 1895-1900.

Early life

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Henry Stanley (1841 - 1904)

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, c.1872  ©Elements of this biography, regarded as accurate when first published, are now contested. Readers are encouraged to practice caution in citing this archived page, and are urged to seek newer sources of information on the subject.

Stanley was a Welsh-born American journalist and explorer, famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonisation of Africa.

Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales. His parents were not married, and he was brought up in a workhouse. In 1859, he left for New Orleans. There he was befriended by a merchant, Henry Stanley, whose name he took. Stanley went on to serve on both sides in the American Civil War and then worked as a sailor and journalist.

In 1867, Stanley became special correspondent for the New York Herald. Two years later he was commissioned by the paper to go to Africa and search for Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard since 1866 when he had set off to search for the source of the Nile. Stanley reached Zanzibar in January 1871 and proceeded to Lake Tanganyika, Livingstone's last known location. There in November 1871 he found the sick explorer, greet