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Speke appears to have had sexual relations with both of them, before handing over the youngest (whom he named 'Kahala') to another man. [12] Speke fell in love with the elder girl, 'Meri', according to his diaries (which were redacted when they were published as books later). [6]
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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
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.
Apr 7, 2024 · Having married his wife Margaret Laurie in 1865 and having three daughters and two sons with her, Grant retired to Nairn where he lived to 64, dying in 1892. His elder son also explored Africa before becoming an MP. His other son was killed in the Boer War.
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Aug 9, 2024 · Speke went on a 47-day side trip that was 452 miles up and down in which he took 34 men with Bombay and Mabruki as his captains and on 30 July 1858 became the first European to see Lake Victoria, known to locals as Nam Lolwe in the Dholuo language and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in the Luganda language.
Isabel Arundell is a well-read spinster and completely taken with Burton. 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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Feb 6, 2013 · However, I engaged Mabruki, despite his deformed hands, his ugliness and vanity, because he was one of Speke's "Faithfuls." For if he but wagged his tongue in my service, kept his eyes open, and opened his mouth at the proper time, I assured myself I could make him useful.
