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STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904)

The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... edited by his wife, Dorothy Stanley.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., 1909. 8vo. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). xvii, 551, [1]pp. Frontispiece portrait plus 15 photogravure plates, 1 folding map, and 2 folding facsimile letters.

Publisher's green crushed morocco gilt, upper cover with gilt device of Africa and lettered Bula-Matari, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Green cloth box, with morocco label titled in gilt.

Deluxe issue. Number 9 of 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley in a fine publisher's morocco binding.

Henry Morton Stanley was born in 1841 in Wales illegitimately as John Rowlands, abandoned as an infant by his mother, passed around to various relatives and eventually sent to the St. Asaph Union Workhouse for the Poor after his family members threw him out. As a child, Rowlands suffered years of abuse by his family and in the workhouse. In 1859, at the age of eighteen, he emigrated to America and began the process of reinventing himself, pret

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Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Journalist and 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)

Sir Henry Morton StanleyGCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welshjournalist and explorer. He was famous for his exploration of central Africa, and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

When he found Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his work in the Congo Basin, and for commanding the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

Stanley's expeditions are known for the cruelty and murders of Africans. He has the highest kill rate among Africa's explorers.^[1] Despite this, he was highly admired and supported by British and Belgian monarchies and knighted in 1899.

Stanley was MP for Lambeth North from 1895-1900.

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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 s