Frederick Courteney Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917),

• British explorer, officer, 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.[1][2] Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent 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.

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• Residence: Relation to Head of House: Pupil, Tottenham, Middlesex - 1861
• Residence: Relation to Head of House: Son, St Pancras, London, England - 1871
• Census: 1901 - Pirbight, Surrey
• Residence: Chertsey, Surrey - 1914
• Residence: Between 1871 and 1890 - South Africa
  • Reference: Biographical Summaries of Notable People - SmartCopy: May 28 2020, 4:19:47 UTC