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background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div style="display:inline-block" class="fn">Frederick Selous</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;; line-height: 1.5em"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg/220px-Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg/330px-Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg/440px-Frederick_Courteney_Selous_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="616" data-file-height="888" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="font-size: 100%">Selous circa 1911</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Frederick Courteney Selous</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">31 December 1851<br />London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">4 January 1917<span style="display:none">(1917-01-04)</span> (aged 65)<br />Behobeho, <a href="/wiki/German_East_Africa" title="German East Africa">German East Africa</a> (now the <a href="/wiki/Selous_Game_Reserve" title="Selous Game Reserve">Selous Game Reserve</a> in southeastern <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a>; <a href="/wiki/25th_Royal_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Royal Fusiliers">25th Royal Fusiliers</a>, East Africa</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/First_Matabele_War" title="First Matabele War">First Matabele War</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/Second_Matabele_War" title="Second Matabele War">Second Matabele War</a>, <br />World War I: <br /> --<a href="/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I)" class="mw-redirect" title="East African Campaign (World War I)">East African Campaign</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Founder%27s_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Founder's Medal">Founder's Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company_Medal" title="British South Africa Company Medal">British South Africa Company Medal</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">Distinguished Service Order</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Mary Maddy</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1894)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Other work</th><td class="infobox-data">Famous African hunter and explorer, <a href="/wiki/Conservation_movement" title="Conservation movement">conservationist</a>, writer</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Frederick Courteney Selous</b>, <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">DSO</a> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span></span>/</a></span></span>; 31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a> explorer, <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">officer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Professional_hunter" title="Professional hunter">professional hunter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Conservation_movement" title="Conservation movement">conservationist</a>, famous for his exploits in <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Africa" title="Southeast Africa">Southeast Africa</a>. His real-life adventures inspired <a href="/wiki/Sir_Henry_Rider_Haggard" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Henry Rider Haggard">Sir Henry Rider Haggard</a> to create the fictional character <a href="/wiki/Allan_Quatermain" title="Allan Quatermain">Allan Quatermain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mandiringana_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mandiringana-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pearson_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Selous was a friend of <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes" title="Cecil Rhodes">Cecil Rhodes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham" title="Frederick Russell Burnham">Frederick Russell Burnham</a>. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included <a href="/wiki/Abel_Chapman" title="Abel Chapman">Abel Chapman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Henry_Neumann" title="Arthur Henry Neumann">Arthur Henry Neumann</a>. He was the older brother of the <a href="/wiki/Ornithology" title="Ornithology">ornithologist</a> and writer <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Selous" title="Edmund Selous">Edmund Selous</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_exploration">Early life and exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Frederick Courteney Selous was born on 31 December 1851 at <a href="/wiki/Regent%27s_Park" title="Regent's Park">Regent's Park</a>, London, as one of the five children of an upper middle class family, the third-generation descendant of a <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> immigrant. His father, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Lokes_Slous&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frederick Lokes Slous (page does not exist)">Frederick Lokes Slous</a> (original spelling) (1802–1892), was Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange" title="London Stock Exchange">London Stock Exchange</a>, and his mother, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ann_Holgate_Sherborn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ann Holgate Sherborn (page does not exist)">Ann Holgate Sherborn</a> (1827–1913), was a published poet. One of his uncles was a painter, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Courtney_Selous" title="Henry Courtney Selous">Henry Courtney Selous</a>. Frederick had three sisters (Florence (born 1850), Annie Berryman (born 1853), and Sybil Jane (born 1862)), and one brother (<a href="/wiki/Edmund_Selous" title="Edmund Selous">Edmund Selous</a> (1857–1934)) who became a famous <a href="/wiki/Ornithology" title="Ornithology">ornithologist</a>. Frederick's love for the outdoors and wildlife was shared only by his brother; however, all of the family members were artistically inclined, as well as being successful in business.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At 42, Selous settled in <a href="/wiki/Worplesdon" title="Worplesdon">Worplesdon</a> near <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a> in <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>, and married 20-year-old Marie Catherine Gladys Maddy (born 1874), daughter of clergyman Canon Henry William Maddy. They had three sons: Frederick Hatherley Bruce Selous (1898–1918), Harold Sherborn Selous (1899-1954), and Bertrand Selous, who was born prematurely on 6 July 1915<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and died five days later. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Youth">Youth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Youth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From a young age, Selous was drawn by stories of explorers and their adventures. Furthermore, while in school, he started establishing personal collections of various bird eggs and butterflies and studying natural history. One account is related by his schoolmaster at <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> when Selous was 10 years old:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>... on going around the dormitories to see that all was in order, discovered Freddy Selous, laying bare on the floor clothed only in his nightshirt. On being asked the cause of this curious behavior, he replied "Well, you see, one day I am going to be a hunter in Africa and I am just hardening myself to sleep on the ground."</p></blockquote> <p>On 15 January 1867, 15-year-old Selous was one of the survivors of the <a href="/wiki/Regent%27s_Park_skating_disaster" title="Regent's Park skating disaster">Regent's Park skating disaster</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Times1867_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times1867-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when the ice covering the local lake broke with around 200 skaters on it, leaving 40 dead by drowning and freezing. He escaped by crawling on broken ice slabs to the shore.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Castle_School" title="Bruce Castle School">Bruce Castle School</a>, Tottenham,<sup id="cite_ref-carr_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-carr-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then at <a href="/wiki/Rugby_School" title="Rugby School">Rugby</a>, and finally abroad in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>. His parents hoped that he would become a doctor.<sup id="cite_ref-PopularScience1899_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopularScience1899-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, his love for natural history led him to study the ways of wild animals in their native habitat. His imagination was strongly fuelled by the literature of African exploration and hunting, Dr. <a href="/wiki/David_Livingstone" title="David Livingstone">David Livingstone</a>, and William Charles Baldwin in particular. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="African_exploration">African exploration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: African exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Going to <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> when he was 19, he traveled from the <a href="/wiki/Cape_of_Good_Hope" title="Cape of Good Hope">Cape of Good Hope</a> to <a href="/wiki/Matabeleland" title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a>, which he reached early in 1872, and where (according to his own account) he was granted permission by <a href="/wiki/Lobengula" title="Lobengula">Lobengula</a>, King of the Ndebele, to shoot game anywhere in his dominions.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From then until 1890, Selous hunted and explored over the little-known regions north of the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Republic" title="South African Republic">Transvaal</a> and south of the <a href="/wiki/Congo_Basin" title="Congo Basin">Congo Basin</a> (with a few brief intervals spent in England), shooting <a href="/wiki/African_elephant" title="African elephant">African elephants</a> and collecting specimens of all kinds for museums and private collections. His travels added greatly to the knowledge of the country now known as <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a>. He made valuable <a href="/wiki/Ethnology" title="Ethnology">ethnological</a> investigations, and throughout his wanderings—often among people who had never previously seen a white man—he maintained cordial relations with the chiefs and tribes, winning their confidence and esteem, notably so in the case of Lobengula.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1890, Selous entered the service of the <a href="/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company" title="British South Africa Company">British South Africa Company</a>, at the request of magnate <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes" title="Cecil Rhodes">Cecil Rhodes</a>, acting as a guide to the <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Column" title="Pioneer Column">pioneer</a> expedition to <a href="/wiki/Mashonaland" title="Mashonaland">Mashonaland</a>. Over 640 km (400 mi) of road were constructed through a country of forest, mountain, and swamp. He then went east to <a href="/wiki/Manica,_Mozambique" title="Manica, Mozambique">Manica</a>, concluding arrangements that brought the country there under British control. Coming to England in December 1892, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Founder%27s_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Founder's Medal">Founder's Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a> in recognition of his extensive explorations and surveys, of which he gave a summary in a journal article entitled "Twenty Years in Zambesia".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GeoJournal1893_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GeoJournal1893-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career">Military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg/250px-Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg/375px-Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg/500px-Bulawayo-H-Troop-Selous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1067" data-file-height="647" /></a><figcaption>Selous (front seated) leader of H Troops of Bulawayo Field Force, Matabeleland, 1890s.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rhodesia_and_First_World_War">Rhodesia and First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rhodesia and First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Selous returned to Africa to take part in the <a href="/wiki/First_Matabele_War" title="First Matabele War">First Matabele War</a> of 1893 and was wounded during the advance on <a href="/wiki/Bulawayo" title="Bulawayo">Bulawayo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was during this advance that he first met fellow scout Frederick Russell Burnham, who had only just arrived in Africa and who continued on with the small scouting party to Bulawayo and observed the self-destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ndebele_people" title="Northern Ndebele people">Ndebele</a> settlement as ordered by <a href="/wiki/Lobengula" title="Lobengula">Lobengula</a>. </p><p>Selous returned to England, and married Mary Maddy in 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1896 he returned to Africa with his wife and settled on a landed property in <a href="/wiki/Essexvale" class="mw-redirect" title="Essexvale">Essexvale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matabeleland" title="Matabeleland">Matabeleland</a>, overlooking the Ncema River.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the <a href="/wiki/Second_Matabele_War" title="Second Matabele War">Second Matabele War</a> broke out, Selous took a prominent part in the fighting which followed, serving as a leader in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulawayo_Field_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bulawayo Field Force (page does not exist)">Bulawayo Field Force</a>, and published an account of the campaign entitled <i>Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia</i> (1896).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was during this time that he met and fought alongside <a href="/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Baden-Powell">Robert Baden-Powell</a>, who was then a Major and newly appointed to the British Army headquarters staff in Matabeleland. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, after initially being rejected on account of his age (64), Selous rejoined the British Army as a <a href="/wiki/Subaltern_(military)" title="Subaltern (military)">subaltern</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and saw active service in the fighting against German colonial forces in the <a href="/wiki/East_African_Campaign_(World_War_I)" class="mw-redirect" title="East African Campaign (World War I)">East Africa Campaign</a>. On 23 August 1915, he was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Captain_(land_and_air)" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain (land and air)">captain</a> in the uniquely-composed <a href="/wiki/25th_(Frontiersmen)_Battalion,_Royal_Fusiliers" title="25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers">25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 26 September 1916 was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order">Distinguished Service Order</a>, the citation reading:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Capt. Frederick Courteney Selous, Royal Fusiliers. </p><p>For conspicuous gallantry, resource and endurance. </p><p> He has set a magnificent example to all ranks, and the value of his services with his battalion cannot be over-estimated.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 January 1917, Selous was fighting in the bush war on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Rufiji_River" title="Rufiji River">Rufiji River</a> against German colonial <a href="/wiki/Schutztruppen" class="mw-redirect" title="Schutztruppen">Schutztruppen</a>, which outnumbered his troops five to one. That morning, he was creeping forward in combat during a <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Behobeho" title="Battle of Behobeho">minor engagement</a> in which he raised his head and binoculars to locate the enemy. He was shot in the head by a German sniper and was killed instantly. </p><p>Upon getting the news, former US President Theodore Roosevelt, his close friend, wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He led a singularly adventurous and fascinating life, with just the right alternations between the wilderness and civilization. He helped spread the borders of his people's land. He added much to the sum of human knowledge and interest. He closed his life exactly as such a life ought to be closed, by dying in battle for his country while rendering her valiant and effective service. Who could wish a better life or a better death, or desire to leave a more honorable heritage to his family and his nation?</p></blockquote> <p>He was buried under a <a href="/wiki/Tamarind" title="Tamarind">tamarind</a> tree near the place of his death, at Chokawali on the Rufiji River, in today's <a href="/wiki/Selous_Game_Reserve" title="Selous Game Reserve">Selous Game Reserve</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>, in a modest, flat stone grave with a simple bronze plaque reading: "CAPTAIN F.C. SELOUS D.S.O., 25TH ROYAL FUSILIERS, KILLED IN ACTION 4.1.17." Exactly a year later, on 4 January 1918, his son, Captain Frederick Hatherley Bruce <a href="/wiki/Military_Cross" title="Military Cross">MC</a>, who was a pilot in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a>, was killed in a flight over <a href="/wiki/Menen" title="Menen">Menin Road</a>, Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-cwgc.org_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cwgc.org-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg/220px-Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg/330px-Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg/440px-Frederick_C._Selous_grave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="844" data-file-height="676" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Frederick C. Selous</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg/220px-2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg/330px-2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg/440px-2019_06_30_Tanzanie_2019_04_Selous_156.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4229" data-file-height="2809" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Frederick Courtenay Selous, contemporary look</figcaption></figure> <p>His private collection of trophies was given by his widow to the Natural History Museum, where in June 1920 a national memorial to him was unveiled, a bronze half-figure by <a href="/wiki/William_Robert_Colton" title="William Robert Colton">William Colton</a>. A Selous Scholarship was also founded at his old school, Rugby.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hunter,_naturalist_and_conservationist"><span id="Hunter.2C_naturalist_and_conservationist"></span>Hunter, naturalist and conservationist</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Hunter, naturalist and conservationist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:YoungFCSelous.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/YoungFCSelous.jpg/200px-YoungFCSelous.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/YoungFCSelous.jpg/300px-YoungFCSelous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/YoungFCSelous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="395" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>A studio portrait of young Selous with his Boer 4 bore <a href="/wiki/Elephant_gun" title="Elephant gun">elephant gun</a> and African spear, 1870s.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hunting_icon">Hunting icon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Hunting icon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Selous is remembered for his powerful ties, such as those with Theodore Roosevelt and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes" title="Cecil Rhodes">Cecil Rhodes</a>, as well as for his military achievements and the books that he left behind. However, he is best remembered as one of the world's most revered hunters, as he pursued <a href="/wiki/Big-game_hunting" title="Big-game hunting">big-game hunting</a> in his southern African homelands and in wildernesses worldwide. </p><p>Accounts of his youth are filled with stories of trespassing, poaching, and brawling, almost all within romanticized and humorous portrayals, but one in particular from 1870 stands out as more serious. In <a href="/wiki/Wiesbaden" title="Wiesbaden">Wiesbaden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussia</a>, he knocked unconscious a Prussian game warden who tackled him while he was stealing <a href="/wiki/Buzzard" title="Buzzard">buzzard</a> eggs for his collection, and he had to leave the country at once to avoid imprisonment. Then, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a>, he went big game hunting for the first time in the nearby <a href="/wiki/Alps" title="Alps">Alps</a>, where he shot two <a href="/wiki/Chamois" title="Chamois">chamois</a>. </p><p>On 4 September 1871, at the age of 19, he left England with £400 in his pocket and was determined to earn his living as a professional elephant hunter. By the age of 25, he was known across South Africa as one of the most successful ivory hunters of the day.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Selous journeyed in pursuit of big game to Europe (<a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, Germany in 1870, <a href="/wiki/Transylvania" title="Transylvania">Transylvania</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> but now <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> in 1899, <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Mull" title="Isle of Mull">Mull</a> Island, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> in 1894, <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a> in 1902, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> in 1907), Asia (<a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> in 1894–95, 1897, 1907), North America (<a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a> in 1897 and 1898, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Canada" title="Eastern Canada">Eastern Canada</a> in 1900–1901, 1905, <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">Yukon</a> in 1904, 1905) and the "dark continent" in a territory that extends from today's <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a> all the way up into central <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> where he collected specimens of virtually every medium and large African mammal species.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 May 1902, Selous was elected Associate Member of the <a href="/wiki/Boone_and_Crockett_Club" title="Boone and Crockett Club">Boone and Crockett Club</a>, a wildlife conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt and <a href="/wiki/George_Bird_Grinnell" title="George Bird Grinnell">George Bird Grinnell</a> in 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg/200px-SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg/300px-SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ab/SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg/400px-SelousAndRoosevelt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Theodore Roosevelt and Selous in Africa, ca 1909.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1909–1910, Selous accompanied American ex-president Roosevelt in his famous African safari. Contrary to popular belief, Selous did not lead Roosevelt's <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian-Roosevelt_African_Expedition" class="mw-redirect" title="Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition">1909 expedition</a> to <a href="/wiki/British_East_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="British East Africa">British East Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Belgian_Congo" title="Belgian Congo">Congo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>. While Selous was a member of this expedition from time to time and helped organize the safari's logistics, the excursion was in fact led by R. J. Cunninghame.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Roosevelt wrote of Selous: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mr Selous is the last of the big game hunters of Southern Africa; the last of the mighty hunters whose experience lay in the greatest hunting ground which this world has seen since civilized man has appeared herein.</p></blockquote> <p>In 1909, Selous co-founded the <a href="/wiki/Shikar_Club" title="Shikar Club">Shikar Club</a>, a big-game hunters' association, with two other British Army Captains, Charles Edward Radclyffe and P. B. Vanderbyl, and regularly met at the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Hotel" title="Savoy Hotel">Savoy Hotel</a> in London. The association's president was <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Lowther,_5th_Earl_of_Lonsdale" title="Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale">The 5th Earl of Lonsdale</a>; another founding member included the artist, explorer, and Selous biographer <a href="/wiki/John_Guille_Millais" title="John Guille Millais">John Guille Millais</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1910, he represented Britain at the Congress of Field Sports in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a rifleman icon and a valued expert in firearms. Early in his hunting career, in the mid-1870s, Selous favored a <a href="/wiki/Four_bore" class="mw-redirect" title="Four bore">four bore</a> <a href="/wiki/Black_powder" class="mw-redirect" title="Black powder">black powder</a> <a href="/wiki/Muzzleloader" title="Muzzleloader">muzzleloader</a> for killing an elephant, a 6 kg (13 lb) short-barreled musket firing a <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>110 g (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> lb) bullet with as much as 20 <a href="/wiki/Dram_(unit)" title="Dram (unit)">drachms</a> (35 <a href="/wiki/Gram" title="Gram">g</a>; 550 <a href="/wiki/Grain_(unit)" title="Grain (unit)">gr</a>) of black powder, one of the largest hunting calibers fabricated. Between 1874 and 1876 he killed seventy-eight elephants with that gun, but eventually, there was a double loading incident together with other recoil problems from it, and he finally gave it up as too "upsetting my nerve". He used a ten-bore muzzleloader to hunt lions. </p><p>After black powder muzzleloader firearms became <a href="/wiki/Obsolete" class="mw-redirect" title="Obsolete">obsolete</a>, he adopted a breech-loading 10 bore as shown in "A Hunters Wanderings in Africa" and by 1880 he was using his favorite, black powder breech-loading rifle a <a href="/wiki/.461_Gibbs" title=".461 Gibbs">.461 No 1 Gibbs</a> / Metford / Farquharson single shot later he was approached by both Birmingham and London gunmakers in hopes of his endorsement, with Holland and Holland providing two Holland and Woodward patent single-shot rifles (often confused in photos as Farquharson's) in the two calibers: a 303 and a 375 2 1/2" and later a .425 <a href="/wiki/Westley_Richards" title="Westley Richards">Westley Richards</a> bolt-action rifle.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are quotes as to how Selous was not a crack shot, but a rather ordinary marksman, yet most agree that was just another personal statement of modesty from Selous himself. Regardless, he remains an iconic rifleman figure and, following in the tradition of others, the German gunmaker <a href="/wiki/Blaser" title="Blaser">Blaser</a> and the Italian gunmaker Perugini Visini chose to name their top line safari rifles the Selous after him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Naturalist">Naturalist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Naturalist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of the Selous trophies entered into museums and international taxidermy and natural-history collections, notably that of the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a> in London. In their <i>Selous Collection</i> they have 524 mammals from three continents, all shot by him, including 19 <a href="/wiki/Lion" title="Lion">lions</a>. In the last year of his life, while in combat in 1916, he was known to carry his butterfly net in the evening and collect specimens, for the same institution. Overall, more than five thousand plants and animal specimens were donated by him to the Natural History section of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>. This collection was held in 1881 in the new Natural History Museum in South Kensington (which became an independent institution in 1963). Here, posthumously in 1920, they unveiled a bronze bust of him in the Main Hall, where it stands to this day.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is mentioned widely in foremost taxidermist <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Ward" title="Rowland Ward">Rowland Wards</a> catalogs for world's largest animal specimens hunted, where Selous is ranked in many trophy categories, including <a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros" title="Rhinoceros">rhinoceros</a>, elephant and many <a href="/wiki/Ungulates" class="mw-redirect" title="Ungulates">ungulates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryden1899_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryden1899-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Founder%27s_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Founder's Medal">Founder's Medal</a> in 1893 "in recognition of twenty years' exploration and surveys in South Africa". </p><p>In 1896, British zoologist <a href="/wiki/William_Edward_de_Winton" title="William Edward de Winton">William Edward de Winton</a> (1856–1922), named a new African small <a href="/wiki/Carnivora" title="Carnivora">Carnivora</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paracynictis_selousi" class="mw-redirect" title="Paracynictis selousi">Paracynictis selousi</a></i> or the Selous mongoose, in his honour.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, a subspecies of the African <a href="/wiki/Sitatunga" title="Sitatunga">Sitatunga</a> <a href="/wiki/Antelope" title="Antelope">antelope</a>, (<i>Tragelaphus spekii selousi</i>), bears his name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conservationist">Conservationist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Conservationist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Selous noticed over time how the impact of European hunters was leading to a significant reduction in the amount of game available in Africa. In 1881, he commented that: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Every year elephants were becoming scarcer and wilder south of the <a href="/wiki/Zambezi" title="Zambezi">Zambezi</a>, so that it had become impossible to make a living by hunting at all.</p></blockquote> <p>This realization led Selous, and other big game hunters of his time, to become keen advocates of faunal conservation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually, colonial governments passed laws enforcing hunting regulations and establishing game reserves, with the aim of preventing the outright extinction of certain species and of preserving animal stocks for future white sportsmen.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Selous_Game_Reserve" title="Selous Game Reserve">Selous Game Reserve</a> in southeastern <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> is a hunting reserve named in his honor. Established in 1922, it covers an area of 54,600 km<sup>2</sup> (21,100 sq mi) along the rivers <a href="/wiki/Ulanga_River" title="Ulanga River">Kilombero</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Ruaha_River" title="Great Ruaha River">Ruaha</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rufiji_River" title="Rufiji River">Rufiji</a>. The area first became a hunting reserve in 1905, although it is rarely visited by humans due to the significant presence of the <a href="/wiki/Tsetse_fly" title="Tsetse fly">Tsetse fly</a>. In 1982 it was designated a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> due to the diversity of its wildlife and undisturbed nature. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selous_as_man_and_character">Selous as man and character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Selous as man and character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portrait_in_literature">Portrait in literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Portrait in literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Frederick Courteney Selous's image remains a classic, romantic portrait of a proper <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian period</a> English gentleman of the colonies, one whose real-life adventures and exploits of almost epic proportions generated successful <a href="/wiki/Lost_World_(genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lost World (genre)">Lost World</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steampunk" title="Steampunk">Steampunk</a> genre fictional characters like <a href="/wiki/Allan_Quatermain" title="Allan Quatermain">Allan Quatermain</a>, to a large extent an embodiment of the popular "<a href="/wiki/White_hunter" title="White hunter">white hunter</a>" concept of the times; yet he remained a modest and stoic pillar in personality all throughout his life. As for himself, he was featured in the "Young Indiana Jones" and "Rhodes" series. He was widely remembered in real tales of war, exploration, and big game hunting as a balanced blend between gentleman officer and epic wild man. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg/300px-Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg/450px-Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Selous-Rifle-And-Bustards.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="412" /></a><figcaption>Selous, a gentleman's portrait on African <a href="/wiki/Safari" title="Safari">safari</a>, with two shots <a href="/wiki/Kori_bustard" title="Kori bustard">Kori bustards</a> and his Holland and Woodward patent rifle. The 1890s.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Appearance_and_character">Appearance and character</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Appearance and character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He excelled in cricket, rugby, cycling, swimming, and tennis. He loved the outdoors, developing a rugged and robust physique by trekking, packing, marching, and hunting. He was also an accomplished rider, and he waged war and hunted much on horses. To the African locals, he was the "best white runner" (in the endurance aspect, similar as to native bushmen's concept). While in England, all his life he played sports, he still did half-day 100-mile bicycle races when almost sixty years old.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Millais, friend and biographer, wrote: "As a sport, he loved cricket most, and played regularly for his club at Worplesdon taking part in all their matches until 1915…'Big Game Hunters' vs. 'Worplesdon' was always a great and solemn occasion." </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"If there was one striking feature in his physiognomy it was his wonderful eyes, as clear and as blue as the summer sea. Nearly every one who came in contact with him noticed his eyes. They were the eyes of the man who looks into the beyond vast spaces. Instinctively one saw in them the hunter and the man of wide views. In social intercourse, Selous had a presence that was apt to make other people look insignificant. He was adored by all his friends, and even perfect strangers seemed to come under his magnetism at the first introduction" - J. G. Millais, 1919. <i>All his life, he sported a full beard, which together with his signature hats, makes him an easily recognizable icon:</i> <i>He wore a double Terai grey slouch hat, slightly on the back of his head. Khaki knickerbockers, with no puttees, bare legs, except for his socks and shirt open at the neck, with a knotted handkerchief around the neck to keep the sun off, with a long native stick in his hand. He had a rooted objection to wearing a cork helmet. It is impossible to forget the impression he made. He was as straight as a guardsman, with a broad deep chest, with a beautiful healthy look in his face.</i></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Capt. R. M. Haines of South African Force, 1917.</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_accounts">Television accounts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Television accounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles" title="The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles">The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</a></i> (TV-Series, 1992–1993) ; played by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Freeman_(actor)" title="Paul Freeman (actor)">Paul Freeman</a> <ul><li><i>British East Africa, September 1909</i> (1992)</li> <li><i>Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom, German East Africa, November 1916</i> (1993)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Rhodes</i> (TV Mini-Series, 1996) ; played by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Slabolepszy" title="Paul Slabolepszy">Paul Slabolepszy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery_of_additional_images">Gallery of additional images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Gallery of additional images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="max-width: 732px;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Studio portrait with his Gibbs Metford rifle and hunting attire."><img alt="Studio portrait with his Gibbs Metford rifle and hunting attire." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg/96px-SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg/144px-SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg/192px-SelousStudioPortrait2RoyalGeographicalSociety.jpg 2x" data-file-width="377" data-file-height="550" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Studio portrait with his Gibbs Metford rifle and hunting attire.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Selous returning from stag hunt in Turkey, book illustration, 1908."><img alt="Selous returning from stag hunt in Turkey, book illustration, 1908." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg/140px-ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg/210px-ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg/280px-ReturnFromHuntingSelous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="606" data-file-height="542" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Selous returning from stag hunt in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, book illustration, 1908.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Selousmemorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Captain Selous Memorial is in the wall just to the left of the elephant tusks. (The elephant is no longer displayed)."><img alt="Captain Selous Memorial is in the wall just to the left of the elephant tusks. (The elephant is no longer displayed)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Selousmemorial.jpg/140px-Selousmemorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Selousmemorial.jpg/210px-Selousmemorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Selousmemorial.jpg/280px-Selousmemorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="220" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Captain Selous Memorial is in the wall just to the left of the elephant tusks. (The elephant is no longer displayed).</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Close up picture of the Selous Memorial in the wall in the main hall of the Natural History Museum"><img alt="Close up picture of the Selous Memorial in the wall in the main hall of the Natural History Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg/126px-Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg" decoding="async" width="126" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg/189px-Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg/253px-Captain_frederick_c_selous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3020" data-file-height="3346" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Close up picture of the Selous Memorial in the wall in the main hall of the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RhinoSelous.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Skull of a record white rhino, shot by Selous in Mashonaland, 1880."><img alt="Skull of a record white rhino, shot by Selous in Mashonaland, 1880." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/RhinoSelous.jpg/96px-RhinoSelous.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/RhinoSelous.jpg/144px-RhinoSelous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/RhinoSelous.jpg/191px-RhinoSelous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="551" data-file-height="805" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Skull of a record <a href="/wiki/White_rhino" class="mw-redirect" title="White rhino">white rhino</a>, shot by Selous in <a href="/wiki/Mashonaland" title="Mashonaland">Mashonaland</a>, 1880.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 170px; height: 170px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ElkSelous.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Head of a wapiti, shot by Selous at Cabin Creek, Wyoming, 1897."><img alt="Head of a wapiti, shot by Selous at Cabin Creek, Wyoming, 1897." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/ElkSelous.jpg/105px-ElkSelous.jpg" decoding="async" width="105" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/ElkSelous.jpg/157px-ElkSelous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/da/ElkSelous.jpg/210px-ElkSelous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="553" data-file-height="738" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Head of a <a href="/wiki/Wapiti" class="mw-redirect" title="Wapiti">wapiti</a>, shot by Selous at Cabin Creek, <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, 1897.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chronology_of_works">Chronology of works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Chronology of works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By Frederick Courteney Selous: </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg/270px-BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg/405px-BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg/540px-BookSelousTravelAdventure.jpg 2x" data-file-width="912" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption>Frontpage of 1st edition Travel And Adventure In South-East Africa, 1893, with Selous portrait and autograph.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSelous1881" class="citation book cs1"><i>A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large Mammalia</i>. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 1881. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5781160/editions">5781160 (all editions)</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+hunter%27s+wanderings+in+Africa%2C+being+a+narrative+of+nine+years+spent+amongst+the+game+of+the+far+interior+of+South+Africa%2C+containing+accounts+of+explorations+beyond+the+Zambesi%2C+on+the+river+Chobe%2C+and+in+the+Matabele+and+Mashuna+countries%2C+with+full+notes+upon+the+natural+history+and+present+distribution+of+all+the+large+Mammalia&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Richard+Bentley+%26+Son&rft.date=1881&rft.aulast=Selous&rft.aufirst=Frederick+Courteney&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span> The book has had many reprints.<sup id="cite_ref-Selous1881_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Selous1881-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Annie Berryman Selous, Frederick's sister drew "ten illustrations, representing the hunting-scenes which embellish my pages, all of which were drawn under my own supervision"; they were engraved in wood by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Whymper" title="Edward Whymper">Edward Whymper</a>. Other illustrations were produced by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smit" title="Joseph Smit">Joseph Smit</a>. (p. viii/ix)</li> <li><i>Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries; With an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country </i> (1893)</li> <li><i>Sunshine & Storm in Rhodesia: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force.</i> (1896), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-60355-059-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-60355-059-8">978-1-60355-059-8</a></li> <li><i>Sport & Travel East and West</i> (1900)</li> <li><i>Living Animals of the World; A Popular Natural History With One Thousand Illustrations</i> (London, 1902)</li> <li><i>Newfoundland Guide Book</i> (1905)</li> <li><i>Recent Hunting Trips in British North America</i> (1907)</li> <li><i>African Nature Notes and Reminiscences</i> with foreword by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (1908)</li> <li><i>Africa's Greatest Hunter: the Lost Writings of Frederick C. Selous</i>, edited by Dr James A. Casada (1998)</li></ul> <p>Selous also wrote the foreword to Africa's most popular man-eater story: <i>The man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. With a foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous</i> (London, 1907). </p><p>Besides the works mentioned, Selous made numerous contributions to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Geographical_Journal" title="The Geographical Journal">The Geographical Journal</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Field_(magazine)" title="The Field (magazine)">the Field</a></i>, and other journals. </p> <dl><dt>Writings by others on Frederick Courtenay Selous</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Big Game Shooting</i>, volume. 1, edited by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (London, 1894)</li> <li><i>Records of Big Game</i> by Rowland Ward FZS (London, fifth edition, 1907)</li> <li><i>The life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.</i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Guille_Millais" title="John Guille Millais">John Guille Millais</a> (London, 1919)</li> <li><i>Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History)</i> by <a href="/wiki/Guy_Dollman" title="Guy Dollman">J. G. Dollman</a> (London, 1921)</li> <li><i>Big Game Shooting Records</i> by Edgar N. Barclay (London, 1932)</li> <li><i>Frederick C. Selous, A Hunting Legend: Recollections By and About the Great Hunter</i> by Dr. James A. Casada (Safari Press, 2000)</li> <li><i>The Gun at Home and Abroad, vol. 3: Big Game of Africa</i> (London, 1912–1915)</li> <li><i>The African Adventurers</i> by Peter Hathaway Capstick (New York: St. Martins Press, 1992), chapter 1</li> <li><i>The British Big-Game Hunting Tradition, Masculinity and Fraternalism with Particular Reference to "The Shikar Club"</i> by Callum McKenzie (British Society of Sports History, May 2000)</li> <li><i>The Mighty Nimrod</i> by Stephen Taylor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selous_Scouts" title="Selous Scouts">Selous Scouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Column" title="Pioneer Column">Pioneer Column</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shangani_Patrol" title="Shangani Patrol">Shangani Patrol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham" title="Frederick Russell Burnham">Frederick Russell Burnham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Matabele_War" title="Second Matabele War">Second Matabele War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_famous_big_game_hunters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of famous big game hunters">List of famous big game hunters</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Selous&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-mandiringana-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mandiringana_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMandiringanaStapleton1998" class="citation journal cs1">Mandiringana, E.; Stapleton, T. J. (1998). "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous". <i><a href="/wiki/History_in_Africa" title="History in Africa">History in Africa</a></i>. <b>25</b>: <span class="nowrap">199–</span>218. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F3172188">10.2307/3172188</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172188">3172188</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161701151">161701151</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=History+in+Africa&rft.atitle=The+Literary+Legacy+of+Frederick+Courteney+Selous&rft.volume=25&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E199-%3C%2Fspan%3E218&rft.date=1998&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A161701151%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F3172188%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F3172188&rft.aulast=Mandiringana&rft.aufirst=E.&rft.au=Stapleton%2C+T.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pearson-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-pearson_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPearson" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Pearson" title="Edmund Pearson">Pearson, Edmund Lester</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160324123500/http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?a=c&id=1144&o=&p=l&s=s">"Theodore Roosevelt, Chapter XI: The Lion Hunter"</a>. Humanities Web. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=s&p=l&a=c&ID=1144&o=">the original</a> on 24 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 December</span> 2006</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Theodore+Roosevelt%2C+Chapter+XI%3A+The+Lion+Hunter&rft.pub=Humanities+Web&rft.aulast=Pearson&rft.aufirst=Edmund+Lester&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanitiesweb.org%2Fhuman.php%3Fs%3Ds%26p%3Dl%26a%3Dc%26ID%3D1144%26o%3D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.</i>, by J. G. Millais, pub. Longman, Greens & Co., London 1919, pp. 12 (Note: the book title misspells Selous's middle name.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Births" in <i>The Times</i>, Monday, 12 July 1915; pg. 1; Issue 40904; col A</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i> The Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.</i>, J. G. Millais, pub. Longman, Greens & Co., London 1919, pp. 13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Times1867-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Times1867_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Fearful Accident in the Regent's Park". <i>The Times</i>. No. 25709. 16 January 1867. p. 9.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=Fearful+Accident+in+the+Regent%27s+Park&rft.issue=25709&rft.pages=9&rft.date=1867-01-16&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.</i>, J. G. Millais, pub. Longman, Greens & Co., London 1919, pp. 45</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-carr-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-carr_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joseph Comyns Carr, <i>Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters</i> (Duckworth & Co., 1908), p. 4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PopularScience1899-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PopularScience1899_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=siUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA258">"Sketch of Frederick C. Selous"</a>. <i>Appleton's Popular Science Monthly</i>. <b>56</b> (12). Bonnier Corporation: <span class="nowrap">258–</span>263. December 1899. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0161-7370">0161-7370</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Appleton%27s+Popular+Science+Monthly&rft.atitle=Sketch+of+Frederick+C.+Selous&rft.volume=56&rft.issue=12&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E258-%3C%2Fspan%3E263&rft.date=1899-12&rft.issn=0161-7370&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsiUDAAAAMBAJ%26pg%3DPA258&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.</i>, J. G. Millais, pub. Longman, Greens & Co., London 1919</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_11-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GeoJournal1893-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GeoJournal1893_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSelous1893" class="citation journal cs1">Selous, Frederick Courtney (<i>sic</i>) (April 1893). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zenodo.org/record/1449186">"Twenty Years in Zambia"</a>. <i>The Geographical Journal</i>. <b>1</b> (4). The Royal Geographical Society: <span class="nowrap">289–</span>322. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1893GeogJ...1..289S">1893GeogJ...1..289S</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1773894">10.2307/1773894</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1773894">1773894</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3997636">3997636</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Geographical+Journal&rft.atitle=Twenty+Years+in+Zambia&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E289-%3C%2Fspan%3E322&rft.date=1893-04&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F1773894&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A3997636%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F1773894%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1893GeogJ...1..289S&rft.aulast=Selous&rft.aufirst=Frederick+Courtney+%28%27%27sic%27%27%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fzenodo.org%2Frecord%2F1449186&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1922_13-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1922">Chisholm 1922</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The outline of the foundations of his house there can be viewed on <a href="/wiki/Google_Earth" title="Google Earth">Google Earth</a> at map reference <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Frederick_Selous&params=20_11_27.49_S_28_55_53.18_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">20°11′27.49″S</span> <span class="longitude">28°55′53.18″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">20.1909694°S 28.9314389°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-20.1909694; 28.9314389</span></span></span></a></span></span>, approximately 5 m north of the track perched 80 feet above the Ncema River.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette29370" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29370/supplement/11438">"No. 29370"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 16 November 1915. p. 11438.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+29370&rft.pages=11438&rft.date=1915-11-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F29370%2Fsupplement%2F11438&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette29765" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29765/supplement/9420">"No. 29765"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i> (Supplement). 26 September 1916. p. 9420.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+29765&rft.pages=9420&rft.date=1916-09-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F29765%2Fsupplement%2F9420&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cwgc.org-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-cwgc.org_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1638654">"Casualty details—Selous, Frederick Hatherley Bruce"</a>. <i>Debt of Honour</i>. <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_War_Graves_Commission" title="Commonwealth War Graves Commission">Commonwealth War Graves Commission</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">31 December</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Debt+of+Honour&rft.atitle=Casualty+details%E2%80%94Selous%2C+Frederick+Hatherley+Bruce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cwgc.org%2Ffind-war-dead%2Fcasualty%2F1638654&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(Memorials of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War, Volume VI)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i> Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History)</i>, J. G. Dollman, London, 1921, preface page</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History)</i>, J. G. Dollman, London, 1921, pp. 1-2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll13/id/61/rec/1">"Archives of the Boone and Crockett Club"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archives+of+the+Boone+and+Crockett+Club&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org%2Fcdm%2Fsingleitem%2Fcollection%2Fp16013coll13%2Fid%2F61%2Frec%2F1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Selous" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Callum McKenzie, <i>The British Big-Game Hunting Tradition, Masculinity and Fraternalism with Reference to ‘The Shikar Club’</i> (University of Strathclyde)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Travel And Adventure In South-East Africa, by Frederick Courteney Selous, published by Rowland Ward And Co., London, 1893, pp. 32, 169, 187, 198, 428, 430-431, 485, 493,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.safaribronze.com/">Safaribronze.com</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bryden1899-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bryden1899_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bryden, H. 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Redmond Cross, and Prentiss N. Gray (editors). A Book of the <a href="/wiki/Boone_and_Crockett_Club" title="Boone and Crockett Club">Boone and Crockett Club</a>. 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