Speke Collection (page 2)

Speke Hall - Elizabethan Building - trees in Foreground. Part of Box 12 Boswell collection. Counties of England. Date: circa 1900

Speke / Grant / Cartoon
Speke and Grant confirmed the source of the Nile (1860-63). Britannia finds the Nile: " Ah, Mr Nile! So I ve found you at last!" Date: 1862-63

View of River Loukouga, tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa
View of a sailing boat on the River Loukouga (Lukuga), a tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, at the time of John Hanning Spekes expedition to discover the Great Lakes of East Africa

Samuel Baker, explorer in East Africa, with his wife Florence, near the Karuma Falls. The natives assume he is Spekes brother, because their beards are similar. Date: circa 1864

Baker, Speke and Grant, explorers in East Africa
Samuel White Baker, John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, explorers in East Africa, enjoying a civilised meal together under an awning. Date: 1863

Of them that folysshly speke agaynst the workes of God, illustration from Alexander
XJF486420 Of them that folysshly speke agaynst the workes of God, illustration from Alexander Barclays English translation of The Ship of Fools

JOHN SPEKE & JAMES GRANT. Reception for British soldiers and explorers in Africa, John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, at the Royal Geographic Society in London, 1863

JOHN H. SPEKE (1827-1864). English explorer. Photographed c1863, against a backdrop depicting Lake Victoria in Africa

Westland Sikorsky S-51 G-AJOV Sir Lamorak of BEA
Westland Sikorsky S-51, G-AJOV, Sir Lamorak, of BEA at Speke Airport, Liverpool, about to leave for Cardiff

English explorers John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) and James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) at Gondokoro, south Sudan, at the end of their expedition

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) born at Bideford, Devon, England. Officer in the British Indian Army and explorer of Africa

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) born at Bideford, Devon, England. Officer in the British Indian Army and explorer of Africa

UGANDA: LAKE VICTORIA. A view of Ripon Falls on Lake Victoria in Uganda, determined to be the headwaters of the Nile River by English explorer John H. Speke in 1862

JOHN H. SPEKE (1827-1864). English explorer. With explorer James Augustus Grant (in chairs, Grant in foreground), meeting with Kamrasi, king of Unyoro (region in present-day western Uganda)

JOHN SPEKE & JAMES GRANT. John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) and James Augustus Grant (1827-1892). British explorers in Africa. Mezzotint engraving, 1863

JOHN H. SPEKE IN AFRICA. John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), English explorer, reading while traveling in East Africa on a conveyance of his invention, 1862. Wood engraving, American, 1867

JOHN H. SPEKE (1827-1864). English exlporer. Reading while traveling in East Africa on a conveyance of his invention, 1862. Wood engraving, American, 1867

Sir Richard Francis Burton disguised as a Pathan, c. 1853
Engraving of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), the English explorer, linguist and diplomat, disguised as a Pathan, c.1853

Sir Samuel Baker (1821-1893)
Engraving of Sir Samuel White Baker, the English explorer, pictured in 1873. Baker undertook extensive exploration of Central Africa, in search of the source of the Nile River, in the early 1860 s

Lady Florence Baker (1841-1916)
Engraving of Lady Florence Baker, the wife of Sir Samuel White Baker, the English explorer, pictured in 1873. Lady Baker joined her husband on his extensive exploration of Central Africa

James Augustus Grant (1827-1892)
Engraving showing Captain James Augustus Grant, the Scottish soldier and explorer, pictured in 1863. Between 1860 and 1863 John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant speaking at the
Engraving showing Captain John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) (standing, left) and Captain James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) (standing, right) being welcomed at the Royal Geographical Society, London

Waganda Band, 1860 s
Engraving showing a group of the Waganda, or Baganda, people of south-central Uganda playing musical instruments, early 1860 s

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864)
Engraving showing Captain John Hanning Speke, the English explorer, pictured in 1863. Between 1860 and 1863 Speke and James Augustus Grant led an expedition to find the source of the Nile; finally

Jh Speke / With Grant / 1863
JOHN HANNING SPEKE Traveller (standing on right), with his fellow-traveller Grant, in Africa in 1863

James a Grant / Hollyer
JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT traveller (with Speke) in Africa

James a Grant / Leighton
JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT traveller (with Speke) in Africa

Jh Speke / Hollyer / Southwl
JOHN HANNING SPEKE Traveller in Africa

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