Note 191 — Chapter XIII · BELGIAN AFRICA

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (John Rowlands) was born in 1842 at Denbigh in North Wales, the son of a farmer’s daughter who was very poor. He became eventually a work-house boy, but managed to acquire a passable education and to find his way twice to the United States, where he pursued many careers till at length he became a press reporter and a special correspondent. In this capacity he “found” and relieved Livingstone and prolonged Livingstone’s life by two years. In 1899 Stanley, who had been in Parliament since 1895, was made G.C.B. by the British Government.