Trow - The ADVENTURES OF SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER : Victorian Hero

Baker, Eight Years Wandering.

Sri Lanka today.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 271.

From Rudyard Kipling, A Tale of Two Cities.

The London street containing the East India Companys headquarters.

The Works of John Ruskin, vol. 20, London, 1905, p. 42.

Parliamentary Papers, vol. 7, 1837.

Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, London, 1839 (diary entry, 12 January 1836).

Richard Cobden, letter to Edward Ellice, 1856. Quoted in Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden MP, ed. John Bright, Macmillan, 1878, p. 248.

Alfred Milner, The Milner Papers, vol. 2, South Africa, 1933, p. 467.

Arthur de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, 1855. Quoted in M.J. Cohen and John Major, History in Quotations, London, Cassell, 2004, p. 681.

Edinburgh Review, vol. 41, 1850, p. 61.

Anthropological Review, vol. 4, 1866, p. 120.

I call him this because his Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1884 made homosexuality an offence punishable with prison. He took no action on child prostitution or prostitution in general.

Henry Labouchere, The Pioneers Hymn, quoted in Cohen and Major, History in Quotations.

George Bernard Shaw, The Man of Destiny, 1895, in Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, vol. 2, London, 1898, p. 20.

In the decade after Samuel Bakers death this bestowal was called the Pax Britannica, the British Peace. Nowadays, with American help, it is called regime change.

The Expansion of England, lecture 1, 1883, quoted in Cohen and Major, History in Quotations.

Baker, Albert Nyanza, vol. 1, p. 288.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 273.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 274.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 277.

Winston Churchills famous description of Gandhi.

Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 12.

From Samuel Bakers diary, quoted in Middleton, Baker of the Nile, p. 22.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile, p. 22.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile, p. 23.

Quoted in Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 13.

The period saw experiments in electrical attempts to resuscitate the dead. Mary Shelleys Gothic horror story Frankenstein (1818) was merely an imaginative take on something believed to be possible.

Quoted in Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 14.

Quoted in Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 15.

Murray and White, Sir Samuel Baker, quoted in Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 17.

The Victorian age was notorious for its large families. Without effective contraception, pregnancy was very likely, especially in well-to-do families with good food, fresh air and a modicum of medical care. Henriettas contemporary Queen Victoria famously dreaded pregnancy and detested babies. Doing her duty for her country (although she found sex with Albert no problem) led to a total of eighty-one months of pregnancy.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Round the World, 1897, ch. 62.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 16.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 18.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 19.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 23.

Quoted in A. Baker, Question of Honour, p. 6.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 30.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 32.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 37.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 40.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 65.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 70.

Baker, Wild Beasts, p. 29.

Khaki means dust-coloured in Persian, and after years of unofficial use was adopted by the British army for service dress in 1898.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 106.

Shotguns, unlike most other firearms in the UK, may be legally held.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 108.

Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 37. Throughout the century, hunters and the armed forces carried all but the kitchen sink with them. Regimental silver accompanied the army on campaign, but the Coldstream Guards had to leave theirs behind on the dockside on embarkation to the Crimea when they realized the troopship could not accommodate it.

Baker, Eight Years Wandering, p. 130.

Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, p. 46.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

Quoted in Edith Sitwell, Victoria of England, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1936, p. 212.

Edward Bauernfeld, Memories of Old Vienna, 1923, p. 274, quoted in Cohen and Major, History in Quotations, p. 558.

Sandor Petfi, Life or Death, September 1849, quoted in Cohen and Major, History in Quotations, p. 559.

Franz Grillparzer, 1849, quoted in Cohen and Major, History in Quotations, p. 559.

G.M. Trevelyan, British History in the 19th Century, London, Longmans, Green, 1924, ch. 19.

Messalina was the murderous wife of the Roman emperor Claudius. Her name is a byword for avarice, lust and cruelty.

The surname was that of a friend of his, the son of Lord Leven.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

Nicolas de Nicolay, Dans lempire de Soliman le Magnifique, ed. M.-C. Gomez-Geraud and S. Yerasinos, Paris, Presses du CNRS, 1989, p. 83.

Hall, Lovers on the Nile, 1981, p. 39.

Quoted in Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

The History of Romanian Railways, http://www.cfr.ro/cfr_new/eng/istorie.htm.

Brander, Perfect Victorian Hero, pp. 567.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 55.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 60.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 65.

Shipman, Stolen Woman, p. 26.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 73.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 13.

The holiest shrine of Islam in the Great Mosque of Mecca. It is the centrepiece of the haj.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.

It was not that far removed in fact from the white slave auction in which Samuel had met Florence. The bizarre difference is that the woman actually paid the man in the form of her dowry and wedding expenses.

The firman was an official letter which could be presented to other rulers in the African world, ensuring Baker every assistance. It could of course be ignored.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.

Collins, The Nile, p. 1.

Although not necessarily. There was no age of consent as yet in Britain, as the journalist William Stead proved when he caused a deliberate scandal by buying a girl of 13 in 1885.

Not only did the plumes appear attached to the headstalls of undertakers horses, but undertakers mutes carried whole trays of them on their heads.

In 1898 at Fashoda, when French and British forces claimed the same village, there was a real risk of war.

Quoted in Hall, Lovers on the Nile, p. 128.

It would be fascinating to know if this was the stars and stripes or the new Confederate stars and bars.

Middleton, Baker of the Nile.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.

Baker, Albert Nyanza.