Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904),English‐born explorer, came to the U.S. (1859), where he adopted the name of his employer, and dropped his original name, John Rowlands. After serving in the Confederate army and U.S. navy, he became a reporter for the New York Herald, and his most exciting of many dramatic assignments was the search in central Africa (1871) for the lost Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he finally discovered and greeted with the famous sentence, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Then and on later trips he continued the explorations of Livingstone, and for some time worked to establish the Congo Free State. Although an American citizen (1862–95), he resumed his English citizenship and was knighted (1899). His writings include How I Found Livingstone (1872), Through the Dark Continent (1878), and In Darkest Africa (1890).