Travel & Exploration
BAKER
(Sir Samuel White, 1821-1893, Explorer & Sportsman)
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Warner
saying that with much regret I must ask you to excuse me from your great day. I write this from my bed where I am confined with that detestable compliant the gout, and the moment I can move I must be off somewhere, either to Bath or Buxton, to go through a regular course. This country does not agree with me. We arrived in England 1 May and I have already had three attacks of gout. I was seven months absent and was entirely free from it. I have written to F. Watts our Secretary to resign the Presidentship of the Council, as I really feel that I shall be away so much that I cannot possibly make any definite engagements. I also feel that the present Earl of Devon should be invited to fill the position, his great name and local influence, as a successor to the late Earl (who was the backbone of the Newton College) would give an importance to the Establishment that would be an immense benefit..., 3 sides 8vo., Sandford Orleigh, Newton Abbot, 13th July
Item Date: 1891
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Background
In 1890 Baker published Wild Beasts And Their Ways, Reminiscenses Of Europe, Asia, Africa And America. Baker was an explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the discoverer of Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The recipient of this letter was the Reverend George Townsend WARNER (1841-1902) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster and a cricketer who played in three first-class cricket matches between 1860 and 1863. He was headmaster of the Newton Abbot Proprietary college. His granddaughter was the author Sylvia Townsend Warner. Baker had close connections with the college and was noted for enthralling the boys there on speech days.
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