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John Banning Speke (1827–1864)
Speke, John Banning. An English explorer; born at Jordans, Somersetshire, May 4, 1827; died near Bath, of an accidental gunshot wound, Sept. 18, 1864. He served in India and in the Crimean war; was with Capt. Richard F. Burton in an expedition which discovered the great lakes of Central Africa; and was at the head of another expedition which discovered the connection of the Nile with those lakes. He published: ‘A Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile’ (1863); and ‘What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile’ (1864).