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He was the second son of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet.
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He was the second son of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet.
He was educated at Eton, England, and at eighteen joined the East India Company"s service as a cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry.
From his early years he was distinguished by his passion for sport. The climate of India not suiting him, after two years he retired from the service and returned to Scotland. During his stay in the East he had laid the foundation of his collection of hunting trophies and specimens of natural history.
He hunted chiefly in Bechuanaland and the valley of the Limpopo River, regions then swarming with big game.
In 1848 he returned to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The story of his exploits is vividly told in his book, Five Years of a Hunter"s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa (London, 1850, 3rd ed 1851).
Of this volume, received at first with incredulity by stay-at-home critics, David Livingstone, who furnished Gordon-Cumming with most of his native guides, wrote: I have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Cumming"s book conveys a truthful idea of South African hunting (Missionary Travels, chap vii).
His collection of hunting trophies was exhibited in London in 1851 at the Great Exhibition, and was illustrated by a lecture delivered by Gordon-Cumming.
The collection, known as The South Africa Museum, was afterwards exhibited in various parts of the United Kingdom. In 1858 Gordon-Cumming went to live at Fort Augustus, Scotland, on the Caledonian Canal, where the exhibition of his trophies attracted many visitors. He died there in 1866.
An abridgment of his book was published in 1856 under the title of The Lion Hunter of South Africa, and in this form was frequently reprinted, a new edition appearing in 1904.
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