This is the grave of Henry Morton Stanley, and yes, it was he who uttered those famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”. Stanley, a journalist and a naturalised American, was sent to find the intrepid explorer Livingstone and they met on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on November 10, 1871. You’ll see that his African name, Bula Matari, is also inscribed on the Dartmoor Granite gravestone. I didn’t know until this lunchtime that Stanley was buried here at the church in Pirbright, just two or three miles away from my home, such are the surprises this project throws up!