4 January 1917(1917-01-04) (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.
Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (/səˈluː/; 31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist...
(Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (as was the real FrederickSelous). In both of his appearances, Selous is portrayed by Paul Freeman, who had played Dr...
The Selous Scouts /səˈluː/ was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution...
Edmund Selous (14 August 1857 – 25 March 1934) was a British ornithologist and writer. He was the younger brother of big-game hunter FrederickSelous. Born...
ornithologist and writer FrederickSelous (1851–1917), British explorer and big-game hunter Henry Courtney Selous (1803–1890), British painter Selous Game Reserve...
The Selous Game Reserve, now renamed as Nyerere National Park (in-part), is a protected nature reserve and wilderness area in southern Tanzania, East Africa...
Lettow-Vorbeck, George Patton, Al Capone, Pablo Picasso, Giacomo Puccini, FrederickSelous, Franz Ferdinand, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Edith Wharton, and...
including George P. Sanderson in India and William Finaughty and Frederick Courteney Selous in Southern Africa. Sanderson, in particular, mentioned two four...
next few days, other outlying settlers and prospectors were killed. FrederickSelous, the famous big-game hunter, had heard rumours of settlers in the countryside...
Allan Quatermain's son, Harry Quatermain. The real-life adventures of FrederickSelous, the British big game hunter and explorer of Africa, inspired Haggard...
" Cigar, the 19th century hottentot elephant hunter who introduced FrederickSelous to elephant hunting, hunted with an old heavy 6 bore muzzleloader....
administrative districts in Matabeleland South. It was originally an estate of FrederickSelous, a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist...
led by legendary military figures such as Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and FrederickSelous. Hundreds of white settlers and uncounted...
hunters in East Africa were Alan Black, Bill Judd, FrederickSelous (remembered as the namesake of the Selous Scouts and whose real-life adventures inspired...
received them hospitably, and joined by the well-known African hunter, FrederickSelous, they pushed on into Mashonaland (today a part of Zimbabwe). They made...
British South Africa Police (BSAP) and guided by the big game hunter FrederickSelous, through Matabeleland and into Shona territory to establish Fort Salisbury...
Probably popularized by British hunters and conservationists such as FrederickSelous, Walter Bell and Samuel Baker, who hunted and collected animals for...
Captain FrederickSelous during the battle when he raised his head while using binoculars to locate the enemy. It is said that because of Selous' fame the...
South Africa Company's Police (BSAP) and guided by the big game hunter FrederickSelous, through Matabeleland and into Shona territory to establish Fort Salisbury...
Nyerere National Park (formerly the northern part of Selous Game Reserve, pronunciation: "Seluu") is the largest national park in Tanzania and also one...
north from the Limpopo River, sending the Pioneer Column (guided by FrederickSelous) through Matabeleland, and starting a colony in Mashonaland. Tippu...
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