When was richard lander born

They travelled back to Britain in In , Lander returned to Africa as leader of an expedition organised by Macgregor Laird and other Liverpudlian merchants, with the intention of founding a trading settlement at the junction of the Niger and Benue rivers.

However, the expedition encountered difficulties, many personnel died from fever and it failed to reach Bussa. While journeying upstream in a canoe, Lander was attacked by local people and wounded by a musket ball in his thigh.

He managed to return to the coast, but died there from his injuries. In Truro, a monument to his memory by Cornish sculptor Neville Northey Burnard stands at the top of Lemon Street and one of the local secondary schools is named in his honour. The building of the column commenced in Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa : from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo : to which is added the Journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast, partly by a more eastern route by Hugh Clapperton Book 4 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide This account was first published in Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa by Richard Lander Book 6 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa by Richard Lander 18 editions published between and in English and Undetermined and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Richard Lemon Lander 8 February 6 February was a Cornish explorer of western Africa.

Lander was the son of a Truro innkeeper, born in the Daniell Arms. Lander's explorations began as an assistant to the Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton on an expedition to Western Africa in Clapperton died in April near Sokoto, present-day Nigeria, leaving Lander as the only surviving European member of the expedition. He proceeded southeast before returning to Britain in July After having made several voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, he was impressed for the navy, in which he soon rose to the rank of midshipman.

During the Napoleonic Wars he saw a good deal of active service, and at the storming of Port Louis, Mauritius, in November , he was first in the breach and hauled down the French flag. Clapperton rised to the rank of commander, and sent out with another expedition to Africa, the sultan Bello of Sokoto having professed his eagerness to open up trade with the west coast.

Morrison, navy surgeon and naturalist. Tracing the course of the Niger opened up valuable trade links between West Africa and the rest of the world; trade links which still result in economic benefit, even today. Richard Lander's values are ones which fit our school very well. Our young people are encouraged to be ambitious, to set the highest standards for themselves and to develop the confidence and leadership skills to achieve them.

That same year, he went on a government expedition to discover the source of the River Niger in Africa. On this occasion, he was accompanied by his brother, John, and they sailed hundreds of miles along the Niger in a canoe. Lander was awarded the first gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in , the year in which he published the account of their expedition.

Soon after this they set out on a further exploration of the region. Sadly, Richard Lander died in Fernando Po , at the age of thirty.