STATUE TO HONOUR DENBIGH'S FAMOUS SON; TOP 30 NORTH WALIANS PART 10: 'World's greatest explorer' Sir HM Stanley deserves more recognition, says councillor.

Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | August 24, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: ROB DAVIES

"WHO is the greatest North Walian?" asks reader Donna Pearce of Trelogan. She answers her own question: "H M Stanley, I presume!" It is some tribute to the mark made on history by explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley that more than century after he died, we can all quote his immortal phrase "Dr Livingstone, I presume" uttered upon meeting the man near Lake Tanganyika in 1871.

Stanley, born in a cottage near Denbigh castle, epitomises much that we admire about the Victorian age - that sense of adventure, the will to learn more ...

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