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19th-century British explorers

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David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
James Clark Ross
British explorer and naval officer (1800–1862)
Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
John Franklin
British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
John Ross
Scottish naval officer and polar explorer (1777–1856)
William Speirs Bruce
Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer (1867-1921)
James Weddell
British Antarctic explorer
John Richardson
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
Hugh Clapperton
Royal Navy officer and explorer
Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
British colonial administrator (1858-1945)
Charles Sturt
Australian explorer (1795-1869)
George Bass
British explorer (1771–1803)
Harry Johnston
British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator (1858-1927)
David Douglas
Scottish botanist (1799–1834)
Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist and explorer (1858–1895)
Robert Hermann Schomburgk
German explorer, botanist, and ichthyologist (1804-1865)
John Rae
Scottish explorer (1813-1893)
George Nares
British naval officer and Arctic explorer (1831-1915)
Henry Kellett
British Royal Navy vice admiral (1806-1875)
William Loftus
British archaeologist (1821-1858)
George Back
British Royal Navy admiral (1796–1878)
Kate Marsden
British nurse (1859–1931)
Albert Hastings Markham
British explorer and Royal Navy officer (1841–1918)
Anne Blunt
British musician and horse breeder (1837–1917)
James Richardson
explorer
John Kirk
Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922)
Francis Rawdon Chesney
British Army general
Lucy Walker
English climber (1836-1916)
William Paterson
Scottish soldier and botanist in Tasmania (1755-1810)
Robert Brown
British scientist, explorer, and author (1842-1895)
John Gillies
Scottish botanist (1792-1834)
Basil Hall
Royal Navy officer (1788-1844)
Reginald Koettlitz
British explorer (1861-1916)
Joseph Barclay Pentland
Irish naturalist and explorer (1797-1873)
Charles Masson
British East India Company soldier and explorer (1800–1853)
Archibald Ross Colquhoun
Rhodesian politician (1848–1914)
John Guille Millais
English artist, naturalist, gardener, travel writer (1865–1931)
Walter Oudney
British explorer (1790–1824)
John Septimus Roe
first Surveyor-General of Western Australia and explorer (1797-1878)
Herbert Ward
British artist and explorer (1863–1919)
Alexander Keith Johnston
Scottish explorer and geographer (1844-1879)
Henry Lansdell
clergyman, explorer and author (1841-1919)
Owen Stanley
British explorer (1811-1850)
Thomas Simpson
Scottish arctic explorer (1808–1840)
Edmund Musgrave Barttelot
British Army officer (1859–1888)
Abraham Bristow
British explorer
George Macartney
British diplomat (1867–1945)
Harry Goodsir
Scottish physician and naturalist
Arthur Douglas Carey
British traveller in Central Asia (?-1936)