page_title: Henry Morton Stanley
section_title: Honours and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Morton Stanley / Honours and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Cymraeg: Cofeb H M Stanley, Llanelwy English: H M Stanley sculpture, St Asaph
context_page_description: Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB was a Welsh-American journalist, explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" He is mainly known for his search for the source of the Nile, work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium, which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and for his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899.
context_section_description: A former hospital in St Asaph, north Wales, was named after Stanley in honour of his birth in the area. It was formerly the workhouse in which he spent much of his early life. Memorials to Stanley have been erected in St Asaph and in Denbigh (a statue of Stanley with an outstretched hand).
  Taxa named in honour of Stanley include:
  freshwater snail Gabbiella stanleyi (E. A. Smith, 1877)
  freshwater snail genus Stanleya Bourguignat, 1885
  The mineral stanleyite is named in his honor, because Dr. David Livingstone donated a collection of African rocks and minerals to the Royal Scottish Museum, there was already a mineral named livingstonite, and the last name of the author describing the species was Livingstone.
  Japanese engineer Takaharu Kitano established an automotive light bulb company in 1920 and named it after Stanley, stating that he admired his "perseverance and pioneering spirit." Stanley Electric is now a major supplier of automotive lighting.
caption: Memorial to H. M. Stanley in St Asaph
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