| Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was most famous for finding Doctor Livingstone in Africa. He was born illegitimately in 1841 in North Wales, spending much of his childhood in the workhouse. He left at 15 and spent some time with relatives, before setting sail for America in 1859. Stanley served as a soldier and a seaman before becoming a journalist for the New York Herald. After covering the British victory ni Magdala in 1868 and the Spanish Civil War, he was given the task of finding Doctor Livingstone, of whom little had been known since he set off in search of the source of the Nile in 1866. Stanley found Livingstone in 1871 at Lake Tanganyika and struck up a friendship with the explorer, ordering frsh supplies for him to continue the quest. Stanley's experiences of this are recorded in How I Found Livingstone (1872). After Livingstone's death that year Stanley resolved to carry out further explorations in Africa and recorded these in Through The Dark Continent (1878) and In Darkest Africa (1890). Stanley had spent some time living in Liverpool, living in Roscommon Street before departing from the city for America in the 1850s. He also visited Liverpool after he became famous, being honoured at a banquet in the Town Hall in 1872. In 1890, he gave a lecture at St. George's Hall. |
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