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George Adamson, the Glossary

George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the Baba ya Simba ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a British wildlife conservationist and author based in Kenya.^[1]

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20th-century British memoirists
British emigrants to British Kenya
Deaths by firearm in Kenya
People educated at Dean Close School
People murdered in Kenya
Settlers of Kenya

Bill Travers

William Inglis Lindon Travers (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was a British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist.

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Born Free

Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.

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Born Free (book)

Born Free is a book by Joy Adamson.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.

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Christian the lion

Christian the lion (12 August 1969 - ?) was a lion born in captivity and purchased by Australian John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke from Harrods department store in London in 1969.

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Coast Province

The Coast Province (Mkoa wa Pwani) was one of Kenya's eight provinces.

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Dean Close School

Dean Close School is a co-educational private boarding and day school for pupils aged 3–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK. The school is divided into pre-prep, preparatory and senior schools located on separate but adjacent sites outside Cheltenham town centre, occupying the largest single private area of land within the town, at some 50 acres. George Adamson and Dean Close School are people educated at Dean Close School.

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Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress.

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Elsa the lioness

Elsa the lioness (28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old.

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Etawah

Etawah (IAST: Iṭāvā), also known as Ishtikapuri, is a city on the banks of Yamuna River in the state of Western Uttar Pradesh in India.

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Gary Collins (actor)

Gary Ennis Collins (April 30, 1938 – October 13, 2012) was an American actor and television host.

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Gary Hodges

Gary Hodges (born 1954) is a British artist and publisher much admired internationally for his graphite pencil wildlife art.

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James Hill (British director)

James Hill (1 August 1919 – 7 October 1994) was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 52 years between 1937 and 1989, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home-Made Car, and as director of the internationally acclaimed Born Free.

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Joy Adamson

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. George Adamson and Joy Adamson are people murdered in Kenya, Settlers of Kenya and White Kenyan people.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kora National Park

Kora National Park is located in Tana River County, Kenya.

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Living Free

Living Free is a 1972 British drama film, written by Millard Kaufman and directed by Jack Couffer.

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Meru National Park

Meru National Park is a Kenyan national park located east of Meru, from Nairobi.

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Nigel Davenport

Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Plantation

Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Richard Harris

Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer.

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Safari

A safari (originally) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in East Africa.

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Sandy Gall

Henderson Alexander Gall, (born 1 October 1927) is a Scottish journalist, author, and former ITN news presenter whose career as a journalist has spanned more than 50 years.

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Somali people

The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.

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Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, (born 12 May 1937) is an English actress.

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Swahili language

Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).

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To Walk with Lions

To Walk with Lions is a 1999 film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Richard Harris as George Adamson and John Michie as Tony Fitzjohn.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Virginia McKenna

Dame Virginia Anne McKenna (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner.

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White hunter

White hunter is a literary term used for professional big game hunters of European descent, from all over the world, who plied their trade in Africa, especially during the first half of the 20th century.

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Wildlife conservation

Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems.

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Wildlife garden

A wildlife garden (or habitat garden or backyard restoration) is an environment created with the purpose to serve as a sustainable haven for surrounding wildlife.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamson

Also known as Adamson, George.

George Adamson, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century British memoirists

British emigrants to British Kenya

Deaths by firearm in Kenya

People educated at Dean Close School

People murdered in Kenya

Settlers of Kenya

References