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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Henry Morton Stanley
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(b. John Rowlands, 1841–1904, GCB 1899) Welsh journalist and explorer. As an illegitimate child he spent many of his early years in the St Asaph workhouse; at the age of 18 he emigrated to the USA and took the name of an adoptive parent, Henry Morton Stanley. He was working for the New York Herald in 1869 when his editor gave him the task of finding David *Livingstone. He did so, in November 1871 at Ujiji, greeting him with the famous line 'Dr Livingstone, I presume'. Inspired by this encounter to become an explorer, he succeeded in tracing the course of the Congo in a great journey described in his Through the Dark Continent (1878). He became a British subject again in 1892.
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