Samuel White Baker
1821–93
Traveller, sportsman, and author. Established an English colony in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where he lived for nine years. Explored the tributaries of the Nile, 1861–5. Served as governor-general, under the Egyptian government, of the equatorial Nile basin, 1869–73. Knighted, 1866. FRS 1869.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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