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SIR HENRY HAMILTON JOHNSTON (1858- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 474 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:HAMILTON See also:JOHNSTON (1858- )  , See also:British See also:administrator and explorer, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:June 1858 at See also:Kennington, See also:London, and educated at Stockwell See also:grammar school and See also:King's See also:College, London . He was a student for four years in the See also:painting See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy . At the See also:age of eighteen he began a See also:series of travels in See also:Europe and See also:North See also:Africa, chiefly as a student of painting, See also:architecture and See also:languages . In 1879-188o he visited the then little known interior of See also:Tunisia . He had also a strong See also:bent towards See also:zoology and See also:comparative See also:anatomy, and carried on See also:work of this description at the Royal College of Surgeons, of whose Hunterian Collection he afterwards became one of the trustees . In 1882 he joined the See also:earl of See also:Mayo in an expedition to the See also:southern See also:part of See also:Angola, a See also:district then much traversed by See also:Transvaal Boers . In 1883 See also:Johnston visited H . M . See also:Stanley on the See also:Congo, and was enabled by that explorer to visit the See also:river above Stanley See also:Pool at a See also:time when it was scarcely known to other Europeans than Stanley and De Brazza . These journeys attracted the See also:attention of the Royal See also:Geographical Society and the British Association, and the last-named in See also:concert with the Royal Society conferred on Johnston the leadership of the scientific expedition to See also:Mount See also:Kilimanjaro which started from See also:Zanzibar in See also:April 1884 . Johnston's work in this region was also under the direction of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Kirk, British See also:consul at Zanzibar . While in the Kilimanjaro district Johnston concluded See also:treaties with the chiefs of Moshi and Taveta (Taveita) .

These treaties or concessions were transferred to the merchants who founded the British See also:

East Africa See also:Company, and in the final agreement with See also:Germany Taveta See also:fell to See also:Great See also:Britain .

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