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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2097

Autographs
Sir Samuel White Baker
1875 (23 December) ALS regarding an invitation. Signed "Samuel Baker". Photo

Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, engineer, writer and abolitionist. Baker served as Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, and as Governor General of the Equatorial Nile Basin which he established as the Province of Equatoria. Notable also for his friendship with King Edward VII who, as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt.

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