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Boyd Alexander
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or "BOYD ALEXANDER (1873-1910), British soldier and explorer, was born at Cranbrook, Kent, Jan. 16 1873. He was educated at Radley, and afterwards entered the army, joining the Rifle Brigade in 1893. In 1897 he led a scientific expedition to the Cape Verde Is., and in 1898 went on his first African journey to the Zambezi and Kafuk rivers. He was appointed to the Gold Coast constabulary in 1900, and took part in the relief of Kumasi. In 1904 he led a scientific expedition to Fernando Po, where he ascended Mt. St. Isabel and discovered various new species of birds. The same year saw the commencement of his most important work - the Alexander-Gosling expedition across Africa from the Niger to the Nile, which occupied three years. During this period he surveyed the shores of Lake Chad and explored a considerable part of eastern Nigeria, returning to England by way of the rivers Ubangi, Shari and Nile. For his various discoveries he received gold medals from the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Antwerp, besides honours from other learned societies. He returned to Africa in 1908, and was killed by natives at Nyeri, in Wadai, April 2 1910.. Alexander published From the Niger to the Nile (1907), besides many articles and papers in scientific and geographical periodicals.
See Herbert Alexander, Boyd Alexander's Last Journey, with a memoir (1912).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Boyd Alexander'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/boyd-alexander.html. 1910.
