Cumming, ROUALEYN-GEORGE GORDON

Cumming, ROUALEYN-GEORGE GORDON, the African lion-hunter and the second son of Sir William-Gordon Gordon-Cumming, was born 15th March 1820, and was educated at Eton. He became a cornet in the Madras Cavalry in 1838, served for a time in Canada, and joined the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1843; but he soon resigned his commission, and, till his return to England in 1848, engaged in those famous hunting exploits narrated in his Five Years of a Hunter's Life (1850), of which he issued a condensed edition, entitled The Lion-hunter of South Africa (1858). He died at his residence, Fort Augustus, 24th March 1866.