English traveler and author, born in Ipsden, England. He traveled on the west coast of Africa in 1862–63; up the Niger in 1868–70; and accompanied the Ashantee expedition in 1873–74, as correspondent of the Times. He wrote a number of books containing the results of his travels, and several novels. Some of these are The Veil of Isis; or, The Mystery of the Druids (1861); Savage Africa (1863); The Martyrdom of Man (1872); The Story of the Ashantee Campaign (1875); and The Outcast, published the same year. He died in Wimbledon on the 24th of April 1875.
