SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY AND HIS ROLE IN THE DISCOVERYCENTRAL AFRICA 1874-1877

Abstract

Henry Morton Stanley was born on January 28th, 1841 in the city of Denby in northern Wales in the United Kingdom ^([1]), and he is an illegitimate son of John Rowlands and registered in the birth certificate the name of John Rowlands and wrote on this certificate a bastard phrase and the father was a drunken peasant who died four months after his birth ^([2]), And on his birth certificate he mentioned that his mother's name is Elizabeth Barry and her father is a butcher  in Denby called Musa Barry and his mother was working as a maid in London as she rushed to her hometown to give birth to the child and left his

[1]) Felix Driver ,Henry Morton Stanly and his Critics:Geography,Exploration and Empire ,past &present Journal,No.133Nov,Oxford University Press,1991,p.137.

[2]) The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol.17, 15^th Edi, Helen Hemingway Benton,Chicago,1974,p.582.