Researching Henry Stanley
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The name Henry means "ruler of the home" and is of German origin.
Records of Henry Stanley on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Henry Stanley and the Stanley Family History
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Some Famous People called Henry Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the source of the Nile, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium which 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.
More than a century after his death, Stanley's legacy remains the subject of enduring controversy. Although he personally had high regard for many of the native African people who accompanied him on his expeditions, the exaggerated accounts of corporal punishment and brutality in his books fostered a public reputation as a hard-driving, cruel leader, in contrast to the supposedly more humanitarian Livingstone. His contemporary image in Britain also suffered from the inaccurate perception that he was American. In the 20th century, his reputation was seriously damaged by his important role in establishing the Congo Free State for Leopold II, though Stanley was unaware of Leopold's true intentions and was never implicated in the atrocities which were perpetrated against the native people. Nevertheless, he is recognized for his important contributions to Western knowledge of the geography of Central Africa and for his resolute opposition to the slave trade in East Africa.
Source: Henry Morton Stanley, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHenry Stanley (cricketer)
Henry Thomas Stanley (20 August 1873 – 16 September 1900) was an English cricketer who played 63 first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1894 and 1899. He was the older son of the wealthy Edward Stanley MP and heir to the Quantock Lodge Estate in Somerset. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the West Somerset Yeoman Cavalry, and was killed in action during the Second Boer War, at Hekpoort, South Africa in 1900.
An account of his death and burial in South Africa is given in A Yeoman's Letters by P. T. Ross. He has a large granite memorial cross in the churchyard at Over Stowey, Somerset, inscribed:
NOT HERE HE LIES NOT HERESource: Henry Stanley (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
BUT FAR AWAY IN OTHER EARTH
BY OTHER GRASS OERSPREAD
YET BY HIS HOME
THIS CROSS SHALL STAND & SAY
HE LIVES AMONG HIS OWN
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