Arthur J. M. Jephson

Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was a young adventurer and African explorer, who accompanied H.M.Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889.

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Main article: Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Jephson's frank, sensitive and open-hearted diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a valuable and disturbing record of the late Victorian African 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, and Arthur 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

• Daniel Liebowitz; Charles Pearson : 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 & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5
• A.J. Mounteney Jephson, Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society 1969

Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"