STANLEY OR ROWLANDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 88, 31 March 1876, Page 4

STANLEY OR ROWLANDS

The Western Morning News of a recent date says :— . « ti\ Yarns' "out "to •be a fact^ as was Bome^fime^o reported, that Stanley, the AjfricVn 3 ejcplorer, is not Stanley at all, huyßflwlandsl : . It will be- remembered«'ihatfiwhen ihe was over in England last,' the question as to bis natioDality was. raised,! abd; it now appears to be setllel^ HeMsn'ot an Amerioan bbt, a WelchmanJ" John Rowlands, alias Hehi^^ v gtani^.;ieft hia home. ,at, Denbigh several „ years ago. After reaching America "he assumed the name of Stanley, and under that name wrote to bis friends. In 1 1865 •he was in the United States nevy, and served as an officer, with £3^o : a>year pay. In the year 1866 ha visited his mother, who has married a second time, and who is now Mrs. (Jones ;jian;d /.on the ,14th of December of that year, he for the occasion dropped his assumed name . and ■ddressed .^the: school children at, St. Asaph, where he had received his early educatidol ni S^on ? afterward»;be became conbe^ed^ith^ihe 7 New York herald, and was sent to England to be chief correspondent for" that paper. Then followed^h'i's" expedition on behalf of Dr. Livingstone ; and the success of it bo delighted the Americans that Stanley di4;not oftre]towpund their national, . self-esteem by telling them that he was not oneiof them, butonly a Britisher who had accomplished the feat. So in this country be 'played the role of American citizen ; but to bis friends in Wales he spoke his -native Welsh."