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Sir Samuel White Baker of Britain founded a settlement at Ceylon in 1848, explored the region of the Blue Nile from 1861 to 1862, and as the first such European, reached Albert in 1864.
Baker served as an English officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer, and abolitionist.