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About Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American 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.
Everything about Henry Morton Stanley →- Occupation
- journalist, explorer, politician, writer
- Position held
- member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 28, 1841
- Died
- May 10, 1904