Selous, Frederick Courteney

has biography | a une biographie: British colonial explorer, soldier, professional hunter, and conservationist. Selous fought in the two Matabele wars (1893-1894; 1896-1897) and the East African campaign during the First World War. He was also close friends with Cecil Rhodes and Abel Chapman, as well as inspiring the character of Allan Quatermain in H. Rider Haggard's colonial novel King Solomon's Mines (1885).

Selous donated numerous animal and plant specimens amassed during his hunting and collecting expeditions in Africa to the British Museum, known as the 'Selous Collection', which are now in the care of the Natural History Museum.
was born | est né: 31 December 1851
died in | est mort par: 4 January 1917
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Natural History Museum; Rhodes, Cecil

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; National Portrait Gallery; J.G. Dollman, Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (1921), digitised online by the Biodiversity Heritage Library; S. Das and M. Lowe, 'Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections', Journal of Natural Science Collections, 6 (2018) 4 -14

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