Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming
1820–66
Lion hunter. Cornet in the Madras cavalry, 1838–40. Hunter in the interior of South Africa, 1843–8. Published an account of his experiences and became known as the "Lion Hunter". Set up a museum displaying his hunting trophies at Fort Augustus on the Caledonian Canal in 1858.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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