Lander, Richard Lemon (1803–1834)

British explorer, born in Truro, Cornwall, England. In 1825 he accompanied Hugh Clapperton on his second expedition to West Africa, and was with Clapperton when he died at Sokoto in 1827. In 1830 Lander was sent with his brother John Lander (1807–39) by the British government to explore the lower course of the Niger. During a second expedition to the River Niger, in 1834, Lander was killed.

He published Clapperton's journal, with additions of his own, as Journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the Coast (1827), followed by Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa (1830). He and his brother published Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Niger in 1832.