John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke
| Capt. John Hanning Speke | |||||||||
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| Born | 1827 | ||||||||
| Died | 1864 | ||||||||
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explorer armed services | ||||||||
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1864.06.14: The Secretary having read a letter from Capt. J.H. Speke, it was resolved on the motion of Mr S.E. Collingwood, seconded by Mr Witt, that the Council have heard with extreme regret the very uncalled for and insulting letter received by the Secretaries from Capt. J.H. Speke respecting their esteemed Vice President HM Consul Captain R.F. Burton, and they feel it to be their duty to order that Captain J.H. Speke shall be excluded from attending at any of the meetings of this Society, and it was further resolved that this resolution be forwarded to Cap. Speke, and that a copy of the letter and resolution be forwarded to Captain Burton.
[likely to have been letter accusing Burton of poisoning him - see Murchison Corresp. in British Library. Gavan Tredoux (visitor 6.4.2016)]
Notes From Elsewhere
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 the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria. He is also known for propounding the Hamitic hypothesis in 1863 - his writings are an example of scientific racism.[1][2] In this hypothesis, he supposed that the Tutsi ethnic group were descendants of the biblical figure, Ham, and had lighter skin and more “European” features than the Bantu-featured Hutu over whom they ruled
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1864