Stanley
Stanley names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stanley SIR HENRY MORTON 53 tation as a correspondent by
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SIR HENRY MORTON 53 tation as a correspondent by sending an account of Lord Napier's victory to London before the official dispatches arrived. In 1868 he went to Spain to report the Carlist War for the same paper. He was called away from there in October, 1869, to go in search of Dr. David Livingstone in Africa, from whom no news had been received for more than two years, and who was reported to have been killed, but whom James G. Bennett, proprietor of the "Herald," believed to be still alive. He arrived at Zanzibar in January, 1871, where he organized a large expedition of 192 men, which he sent off in five parties. His objctive point was Ujiji, which he reached, and found Livingstone, Nov. 10, 1871. After remaining with the veteran Scotch missionary and explorer four months he returned, Livingstone refusing to give up his enterprise till he had completed his work. In 1874 In 1874 he set out on a second African expedition for the "Herald" and London "Daily Telegraph." At Zanzibar he learned that Livingstone had died in the autumn on the shore of Lake Bangweolo. He reached Victoria Nyanza in February, 1875. He was the first to circumnavigate Victoria Lake, and discovered the Shimeeyu river. He reached England again in February, 1878. Then came the Belgian enterprise, out of which was developed the Free State of Kongo, with Stanley as its conductor, with large means at his disposal. Near the close of 1886 Stanley, under the auspices of the Egyptian Government and of English societies and individuals, undertook an expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha. For this purpose he left England in January, 1887, and returned in 1890, after escorting escorting Emin Bey and a large troop of followers from the interior to the coast. He wrote "How I Found Livingstone," "Through the Dark Continent," "Congo and the Founding of its Free State," "Slavery and the Slave Trade," "In Darkest Africa," "Through South Africa," etc. He was made a D. C. L. of Oxford University in 1890, and the same year was married to Miss Dorothy Tennant in Westminster Abbey. In 1890-1891 he made a lecturing tour of the United States, and in 1895 was elected to Parliament. He died May 10, 1904.
Stanley ARTHUR PENRHYN, an English clergyman
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ARTHUR PENRHYN, an English clergyman; son of the Bishop of Norwich, born in Alderley, Cheshire, Dec. 13, 1815; was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold (1829-1834). As a scholar of Balliol, he gained the Newdigate, Ireland, and other university distinctions; took a first class in classics (1837); and was elected fellow of University College (1840). Taking orders, he was for 12 years tutor of his college; Select Preacher (1845-1846); secretary to the Oxford University Commission (1850-1852); canon of Canterbury (1851-1858); Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and canon of Christ Church (1858-1864); in 1863 declined the archbishopric of Dublin; and became next year the Dean of Westminster. St. Andrews University conferred on him the degree of LL.D (1871), and he was installed its rector (1875). He made a tour in the East (1852-1853), and again as chaplain to the Prince of Wales (1862), performed the Protestant marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg (1874), and visited the United States (1878). The leader after Maurice's death of the "Broad Church" party, he showed sympathies with free thought by his action in the "Essays and Reviews" and Colenso controversies; by his presence at the second "Old Catholic" Congress; by invitations to Dissenters and Max Müller to preach_or lecture in the Abbey. Among ng his numerous publications are the "Life of Arnold" (1844, 9th ed. 1875); "Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age" (1846, 3d ed. (1874); "Memoir of Bishop Stanley" (1850); "Epistles to the Corinthians, with Notes and Dissertations" (1854, 4th ed. 1876); "Historical Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral" (1854, 6th ed. 1872); "Sinai and Palestine" (1855, 20th ed. 1874); "Lectures on the Eastern Church" (1861, 4th ed. 1869); "Lectures on the Jewish Church" (3 series, 1862-1875, 7th ed. 1877); "Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey" (1867, 4th ed. 1874); "Essays on Questions of Church and State from 1850 to 1870" (1870); "The Athanasian Creed" (1871); "Lectures on the Church of Scotland" (1872); and "Addresses and Sermons at St. Andrews" (1877). He married in 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin. He died in his deanery, July 18, 1881, and was buried in the chapel of Henry VII., Westminster Abbey. 52 STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON
Stanley SIR HENRY MORTON, an English explorer
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SIR HENRY MORTON, an English explorer; born near Denbigh, Wales, in 1840; name originally John Rowlands. When three years old he became an inmate of the poorhouse at St. Asaph, where he made such progress in the school that he was employed as a teacher of other children at Mold, Flintshire, when he went away at the age of 13. Two years later he sailed as cabin boy on board a vessel bound for New Orleans, and in that city he found a friend in a merchant, who adopted him and gave him his own name, but died HENRY M. STANLEY leaving no will. Young Stanley, left to his own resources, went to California, where he sought his fortune in the gold mines. When the Civil War broke out he became a soldier in the Confederate army. He was made prisoner, and subsequently took service in the United States navy, becoming acting ensign on the ironclad "Ticonderoga." After the close of the war he became a newspaper correspondent, writing a series of letters from Crete and Asia Minor. When the English expedition was sent against King Theodore of Abyssinia in 1867 he accompanied it as commissioner of the New York "Herald." He made his repu-
Stanley AUGUSTUS OWSLEY, an American public official
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AUGUSTUS OWSLEY, an American public official, born in Shelbyville, Ky., in 1867. He graduated from Centre College in 1889. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Henderson, Ky. He was elected to the 58th Congress, and was successively re-elected until 1915, in which year he was elected governor of Kentucky. He was elected United States Senator in 1918, for the term ending 1925.
Stanley SIR ALBERT Empress Catherine)
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SIR ALBERT Empress Catherine), by whose influence he was crowned King of Poland at Warsaw in 1764. The nobility, however, were discontented with this interference on the part of Russia, and forcibly compelled the king to abdicate (1771). He protested against the various partitions of Poland, formally resigned his sovereignty in 1795, and finally died in St. Petersburg, Feb. 12, 1798, as a pensioner of the Emperor Paul I.
Stanley SIR ALBERT (HENRY)
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SIR ALBERT (HENRY), a British public official, born at Derby, England, in 1875. He was educated at American college and technical an schools, and was general manager of the American electric railways for 12 years, chiefly the Detroit United Railways and the Public Service Railways of New Jersey. He became conservative Union-
Stanley SIR ALBERT ist Member of Parliament for Ashtonunder-Lyme in 1916
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SIR ALBERT ist Member of Parliament for Ashtonunder-Lyme in 1916, and in that year was also made president of the Board of Trade.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 it treated Sir Henry Morton Stanley as the unambiguous hero of the page - the workhouse boy who found Livingstone at Ujiji in November 1871 and then served as "conductor" of the Congo Free State - and said nothing of what that state became; historians now weigh him alongside the atrocities committed under Leopold II, and his Emin Pasha relief expedition of 1887-1890 is read as one of the deadliest marches in the history of African exploration. His name has largely been taken off the map: Stanleyville became Kisangani in 1966, Stanley Pool is now Pool Malebo and Stanley Falls the Boyoma Falls, and a statue of him in Denbigh, unveiled in 2011, was argued over before it went up. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, the Broad Church Dean of Westminster who invited Dissenters and Max Mueller into the Abbey, has faded to a subject for church historians, though the tolerant, national-shrine character he gave the Abbey has outlasted him. The remaining Stanleys here are the quiet part of the page - kept alive mostly by the family name and the places that carry it rather than by anything the encyclopedias claimed for them.
Written for this edition, 2026.