Frederick Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous DSO was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His reallife adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was preeminent within a select group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was the older brother of ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.

Frederick Courteney Selous was born onDecember 1851 at Regents Park, London, as one of the five children of an aristocratic family, third generation of partHuguenot heritage. His father, Frederick Lokes Slous , was Chairman of the London Stock Exchange and his mother, Ann Holgate Sherborn , was a published poet. One of his uncles was painter Henry Courtney Selous. Frederick had three sisters , Annie Berryman , and Sybil Jane , and one brother who became a famous ornithologist. Fredericks love for the outdoors and wildlife was shared only by his brother however, all of the family members were artistically inclined, as well as being successful in business.

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