Lander, Richard

has biography | a une biographie: British colonial explorer in West Africa in the early nineteenth century.

At the age of 13, Lander traveled to the Caribbean with a merchant and spent a brief year living in San Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominica Republic) from 1817 to 1818. He later accompanied Major W. M. G. Colebrooke on an expedition to Cape Colony in 1823, and Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton on an expedition to West Africa from 1825 to 1827.

Lander made two more travels to West Africa from 1830 to 1831 and from 1832 to 1834, where he died after being attacked by indigenous people.

Lander's final travels in 1832 was financed by Liverpool merchants led by Macgregor Laird (see also the database entry for John Laird), meaning that that there is a very strong likelihood that slavery-derived wealth provided the resources to undertake this expedition to Africa. Lander briefly worked in a customs office in Liverpool from 1831-1832 and would have built up contacts in the city from this position.
was born | est né: 8 February 1804
died in | est mort par: 6 February 1834
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Laird, John

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Richard Lander; Wikipedia - Hugh Clapperton; Wikipedia - Macgregor Laird; Emma Laws, 'The ‘impulse of curiosity’: Hugh Clapperton’s explorations into the African interior', Devon & Exeter Institution

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