John Hanning Speke - Wikipedia While Meri proved loyal to Speke and fulfilled her task at being a "wife" to him as commanded by the Queen Mother, Speke was distressed because he thought she had no love or deep attachment to him
John Hanning Speke | Biography Facts | Britannica John Hanning Speke was a British explorer who was the first European to reach Lake Victoria in East Africa, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile River
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Speke undertook a third expedition, without Burton, aimed at proving his claim that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile Accompanied by 176 men, Speke set out from Zanzibar in September 1860
The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile, by John Hanning Speke Speke telegraphed early in 1863, that the Nile source was traced Returning to England that year he met with an ovation, and addressed a special meeting of the Geographical Society, and the same year, 1863, published his "Journal of the Discovery of the Nile "
John Hanning Speke - Burtoniana SPEKE, JOHN HANNING (1827–1864), African explorer and discoverer of the source of the Nile, second son of William Speke (1798–1887) of Jordans, near Ilminster, Somerset, by Georgina Elizabeth, daughter of William Hanning of Dillington, was born at Jordans on 4 May 1827
John Hanning Speke - Encyclopedia. com An English explorer of Africa, John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) solved the riddle of the Nile River by discovering its source during the course of an epic journey to and through the Great Lakes region of eastern Africa