Spenser St. John
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Spenser St. John, FRGS, FES, was British Consul in Brunei in the mid 19th century. In 1858, St. John made two ascents of the famous Mount Kinabalu with Hugh Low. One of the peaks of Mount Kinabalu, St. John's Peak (4,091 m - 4 metres shorter than the summit of Low's Peak), is named in his honour.

In 1884, he published a memoir of his experiences as British consul to Haiti, entitled Hayti or the Black Republic. Its sensational tales of cannibalism within the Vodou religion caused public outrage.

He is also quoted as saying that "The History of the country [Haiti]...is but a series of plots and revolutions followed by barbarous military executions."

St. John also served as Minister of the government of her Majesty near the Mexican Government of the general Porfirio Diaz, where he helped to restore relations between UK and Mexico, broken since the French intervention in Mexico.^[1]

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• Hayti or The Black Republic

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