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Stanley returned to England where he married the artist Dorothy Tennant in 1890. He was naturalized as a British subject in 1892 and
served as a Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Lambeth from 1895 to 1900. He made a brief visit to South Africa in the 1890's and was knighted in 1899. Henry Stanley died on May 9, 1904.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was known by the African natives as Bula Matari, "Breaker of Bones", after the single-minded and often brutal determination with which he
conducted his expeditions. In the history of exploration, he is most famous for locating David Livingstone, but he was also the first European to descend the length of the Congo River, and, after Verney Lovett Cameron, the
second European to cross central Africa from east to west. In locating the source of the Congo, he completed the exploration of Africa's last remaining unknown river system, and he later encouraged its development as the main
entry route into the interior of Africa. Stanley is also generally credited with having finally resolved the question of the Nile's source, confirming John Hanning Speke's contention that the world's longest river flowed out
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