34 Facts About Samuel Baker

Samuel Baker held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.

Samuel Baker served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria.

Samuel Baker is mostly remembered as the first European to visit 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.

Samuel Baker was a friend of King Edward VII, who as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt.

Samuel White Baker was born on 8 June 1821 in London, as the offspring of a wealthy commercial family.

Valentine Samuel Baker, known as "Samuel Baker Pasha", was initially a British hero of the African Cape Colony, the Crimean War, Ceylon and the Balkans, later dishonoured by a civilian scandal.

Samuel Baker was educated at a private school at Rottingdean in Sussex, next at the King's School, Gloucester, then privately at Tottenham, before completing his studies in Frankfurt, Germany in 1841.

Samuel Baker left his four surviving daughters in the care of his unmarried sister Mary "Min".

Samuel Baker was outbid by the Pasha but bribed the girl's attendants and they ran away in a carriage together and eventually she became his lover and wife and accompanied him everywhere he journeyed.

Samuel Baker was officially born 6 August 1841 in Nagyenyed, Austria-Hungary and was named Florenz Barbara Maria.

Samuel Baker said that her nurse helped her to a refugee camp in Vidin, Bulgaria.

Samuel Baker's nurse married and left her, probably during the first Amnesty of 1857.

Samuel Baker was affectionately called "Flooey" by Baker and later nicknamed Anyadwe or Daughter of the Moon in what is northern Uganda by the Luo-speaking Acholi natives, who prized her long blonde hair.

Samuel Baker spoke English, Turkish, and Arabic, rode camels, mules and horses and carried pistols when in the wilds.

Confusingly, Lady Samuel Baker is in Hungarian sources known as Sass Flora, and Florica Maria Sas in the Romanian sources.

Samuel Baker died in 1916 at the estate she had shared with her husband in Sandford Orleigh, Devon.

Samuel Baker was 74 years old and was buried with her husband, who had died 23 years earlier, in the Baker family vault at Grimley, near Worcester, although her name was never recorded.

Samuel Baker formed an exaggerated idea of the relative importance of the Albert and Victoria lake sources in contributing to the Nile flow rate.

Samuel Baker started upon his return journey, and reached Khartoum, after many checks, in May 1865.

Samuel Baker never received quite the same level of acclamation granted to other contemporary British explorers of Africa.

In 1869, at the request of the khedive Ismail, Samuel Baker led a military expedition to the equatorial regions of the Nile, with the object of suppressing the slave-trade there and opening the way to commerce and civilisation.

Samuel Baker published his narrative of the central African expedition under the title of Ismailia.

Samuel Baker spent several winters in Egypt, and travelled in India, the Rocky Mountains and Japan in search of big game, publishing in 1890 Wild Beasts and their Ways.

Samuel Baker kept up a correspondence with men of all shades of opinion upon Egyptian affairs, strongly opposing the abandonment of the Sudan by the British Empire and subsequently urging its reconquest.

Samuel Baker was cremated and his ashes buried in the Baker family vault at Grimley Saint Bartholomew Churchyard in Grimley, Worcestershire.

Samuel Baker lived as a reputed Victorian Nimrod and was a milestone in the history of modern hunting through his works and deeds.

Samuel Baker was proud of his British heritage and was an advocate of the virtues of his nation, and a fighter against slavery in Northern Uganda at Fort Patiko.

Samuel Baker hunted consistently until his last years, in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Samuel Baker forged his skills chasing Asian elephants and sambar deer in Ceylon, a place where Rowland Ward's records account him for some of the world's largest wild boar trophies.

Samuel Baker travelled looking for sport in Asia Minor in 1860, in Scotland in 1869 for red stag, in the Rocky Mountains in 1881 downing elk, grizzly and buffalo.

Samuel Baker visited for sport, Transylvania for bears, Serbia for wild boars, Hungary for deer, Cyprus in 1879, China and Japan.

Samuel Baker left a wealth of study in the science of hunting firearms and ballistics, and accounts as one of the world's few hunters that used the two bore rifle, the world's largest gun calibre for the purpose.

Samuel Baker described in great detail his observations of the animal world, account in which, his book Wild Beasts And Their Ways ranks highest.

In Sri Lanka, Samuel Baker's Falls bears his name, and in 1906 Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, named Mount Samuel Baker in his honour while in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda.