biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–61)
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| biography:
| Explorer and merchant, born in Greenock, Inverclyde, WC Scotland, UK. He first travelled to the lower Niger with Richard Lander's last expedition (1832–4), and was the first European to journey up the Benue R. In 1837 he started a transatlantic steamship company, his ship Sirius becoming the first to cross the Atlantic entirely under steam in 1838. |
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