Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (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 Allan Quatermain character. 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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31 December 1851 London, England
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4 January 1917 (aged 65) Behobeho, German East Africa (now the Selous Game Reserve in southeastern Tanzania)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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