Henry E. O'Neill

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Henry Edward O'Neill FRGS, FRAS, RN, (1848–1925){{cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=6498&inst_id=10&nv1=search&nv2= |title=AIM25 collection description |website=aim25.ac.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315183616/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=6498&inst_id=10&nv1=search&nv2= |archive-date=2012-03-15}} was a Royal Navy officer and British explorer of central Africa.{{cite book|last=Newitt|first=M. D. D. |title=A history of Mozambique|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmozambi00newi|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-34006-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmozambi00newi/page/335 335]}} He served as HBM consul, Mozambique.{{cite book|last=Whitaker|first=Joseph |title=An Almanack...: by Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A., containing an account of the astronomical and other phenomena ...information respecting the government, finances, population, commerce, and general statistics of the various nation's of the world, with an index containing nearly 20,000 references|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d243AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA338|year=1882|publisher=Whitaker's Almanack|page=338}} O'Neill was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Royal Geographical Society, as well as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Scottish Geographical Society.{{cite book|last=Royal Scottish Geographical Society|title=Scottish geographical magazine|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BYcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92|volume=2|year=1886|page=92|chapter=The Ancient Civilisation, Trade, and Commerce of Eastern Africa }} He was the 1882 recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award and the 1885 recipient of their Patron's Medal.{{cite book|last=Royal Scottish Geographical Society|title=Scottish geographical magazine|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxYcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA337|volume=1|year=1885|page=337|chapter=East AFrica, Between the Zambezi and the Rovuma Rivers: Its People, Riches, and Development}}

Some of his published works include, Journey from Mozambique to Lake Shirwa, and discovery of Lake Amaramba, and

Astronomical observations between Mozambique coast and lake Nyassa.{{cite book|last=O'Neill |first=Henry E. |title=Astronomical observations between Mozambique coast and lake Nyassa}} His narrative of first encounter in 1882 with residents of the plateau south of Mozambique's Ruvuma Region was the earliest written record on the area.{{cite journal|date=Winter 2004|title=Villains, Victims, or Makonde in the Making? Reading the Explorer Henry O'Neill and Listening to the Headman Lishehe|journal=Ethnohistory|publisher=Johns Hopkins University, Project MUSE|volume=51|issue=1|pages=1–43|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eth/summary/v051/51.1west.html | doi = 10.1215/00141801-51-1-1 |last1=West|first1=H. G.|s2cid=162233416}}