Frederick Selous
British Army officer
Died when: 65 years 4 days (780 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (/s?'lu?/; 31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa.
His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character.Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham.
He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann.He was the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.
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