Horace Waller

Horace Waller (1833–1896) was an English anti-slavery activist, missionary and clergyman. He was known as a writer on Africa, evangelical Christian, close associate of David Livingstone and others involved in central and east African mission and exploration work, and advocate of British imperial expansion.

Life Born in London, Waller was educated under Dr. Wadham at Brook Green. He was for some time in business, in London, as a stockbroker.

With the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), Waller went out in 1861 to the regions recently visited by David Livingstone and Sir John Kirk. For a period he worked with Charles Frederick Mackenzie, bishop of Central Africa, and was associated with Livingstone in the Zambesi River and Shire Highlands districts. Waller's edition of the journals has been called "well-intentioned but unduly reverent". In 1891 Sir Harry Johnston criticised Waller for his lack of interest in other sides of Livingstone's work and papers.

Waller also wrote:

On some African Entanglements of Great Britain, 1888. Nyassaland: Great Britain's Case against Portugal, 1890. Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: an African Contemplation, 1891. Heligoland for Zanzibar, or one Island full of Free Men to two full of Slaves, 1893. Health Hints for Central Africa, 1893, five editions. Slaving and Slavery in our British Protectorates, Nyssaland and Zanzibar, 1894. The Case of our Zanzibar Slaves: why not liberate them?, 1896.