Frederick Selous

Frederick Selous
Frederick Selous
	Selous circa 1911
Birth name	Frederick Courteney Selous
Born	31 December 1851; London, England
Died	4 January 1917 (aged 65); Behobeho, German East Africa (now the Selous Game Reserve in southeastern Tanzania)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Rank	Captain
Commands held	Bulawayo Field Force, Matabeleland; 25th Royal Fusiliers, East Africa
Battles/wars	First Matabele War, ; Second Matabele War, ; World War I: ; --East African Campaign
Awards	Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, ; British South Africa Company Medal; Distinguished Service Order
Spouse(s)	Mary Maddy (m. 1894)
Other work	Famous African hunter and explorer, conservationist, writer

Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (/səˈluː/; 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 character Allan Quatermain.^[1]^[2] 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.

^ Mandiringana, E.; Stapleton, T. J. (1998). "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous". History in Africa. 25: 199–218. doi:10.2307/3172188. JSTOR 3172188. S2CID 161701151.
^ Pearson, Edmund Lester. "Theodore Roosevelt, Chapter XI: The Lion Hunter". Humanities Web. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2006.