Arthur Jephson

Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson(1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer andAfrican explorer,who accompaniedH. M. Stanleyon theEmin Pasha Relief Expedition,1887–1889.^[1]

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Jephson's diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a record of the lateVictorianAfrican expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.

Henry M Stanley with the officers of the Advance Column, Cairo, 1890. From the left: Dr.Thomas Heazle Parke,Robert H. Nelson,Henry M. Stanley,William G. Stairs,andArthur J. M. Jephson

References and further reading

Primary sources

Jephson, A. J. Mounteney:Diary,Edited by Dorothy Middleton,Hakluyt Society,1969
Stanley, Henry Morton:In Darkest Africa,1890

Secondary works

Liebowitz, Daniel;Pearson, Charles:The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo,2005,ISBN 0-393-05903-0
Moorehead, Alan:The White Nile,London, 1960, 1971
Smith, Iain R.:The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890,Oxford University Press,1972
Gould, Tony:In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column,David & Charles1980ISBN 0-241-10125-5

Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"

Notes

^Driver, Felix. "Jephson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34182.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)

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[1] Driver, Felix. "Jephson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34182.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)

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