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Speke is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863, in which he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical figure Ham, and had lighter skin and more Hamitic features than the Bantu Hutu over whom they ruled.
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John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was in fact the first European that reached Lake Victoria and as such is the "discoverer of the source of the Nile". He is also known...
John Hanning Speke was one of seven children of William Speke, a retired army captain and a tenant at Orleigh Court, near Bideford, and Georgina Elizabeth (née Hanning) who came from a wealthy mercantile family.This William Speke inherited the Speke family home at Jordans, Ashill, Ilminster, Somerset, from his father in 1839, and this became the ho...
He married by local custom, a girl named Meri, at the court of Mutesa, near Lake Victoria, but it didn't last. (1) In 1844 he was commissioned into the British Army and posted to India, where he served under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War. He spent his leave exploring the Himalayan Mountains and Mount Everest and once crossed in...
John Hanning Speke was a descendant of a younger branch of the Speke family of Dowlish Wake, where he was buried. John Hanning SpekeFind A Grave IndexName John Hanning SpekeEvent Type BurialEvent Date 1864Event Place Dowlish Wake, South Somerset District, Somerset, EnglandPhotograph Included YBirth Date 04 May 1827Death Date 15 Sep 1864Affiliate Re...
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke#Death (2) "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-GSK7 : 13 December 2015), John Hanning Speke, 1864; Burial, Dowlish Wake, South Somerset District, Somerset, England, St Andrew Churchyard; citing record ID 13262340, Find a Grave, http://www.find...
- May 4, 1827
- September 15, 1864
Sep 11, 2024 · John Hanning Speke (born May 3, 1827, Bideford, Devon, England—died September 15, 1864, near Corsham, Wiltshire) was a British explorer who was the first European to reach Lake Victoria in East Africa, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.
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Aug 9, 2024 · Speke is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863, in which he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical figure Ham, and had lighter skin and more Hamitic features than the Bantu Hutu over whom they ruled.
Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men.
With Speke at his side, Burton returns to Africa to lead a grand expedition following Arab slave trade routes into the interior. They rescue escaped slave Mabruki (Delroy Lindo) from the lions. It is an epic Victorian adventure.
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Jack Speke was Burton's traveling companion and acolyte, much younger, six feet tall with blue eyes, whom Burton tried to seduce, claimed Speke, an incident totally ignored by Rice. It was Speke, to Burton's distress and humiliation, who discovered the source of the Nile.
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