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Name: CORBETT, Edward James 'Jim' OBE

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Nee: bro of Margaret Winnifred Corbett

Birth Date: 25 July 1875 Naini Tal, India

Death Date: 19 Apr 1955 Nyeri

First Date: 1922

Profession: Hunter, tracker, naturalist

Area: Nyeri

Married: No

Book Reference: Sahib, Hut, Chandler, Barnes

General Information:

Sahib - Jim was very friendly with Percy Wyndham (later Sir Percy) who had joined the Indian Civil Service in 1886 and who had purchased a farm called the 'Kikafu' estate near Moshi. Jim purchased a share in the estate. Since Jim and Wyndham were both working in India the estate was run by Jim's old wartime friend Bellairs as overseer for 25 years, leaving in 1947. Wyndham retired in 1924 to 'Kikafu' and from 1922 until the mid 1930s Jim travelled most years to Kenya for a few months. He was a very shrewd businessman. .......retired to Kenya in 1947 and, after living with Ray Nestor and Tom Corbett, finally settled at the Outspan in the cottage 'Paxtu' that the Baden Powells had lived in. His sister Maggie came to Kenya with him from India and lived with him.
St. Peter's Nyeri cemetery - Edward James "Jim" Corbett, born in Naini Tal, India 25 July 1875, died in Nyeri 19 April 1955 - until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, and of his sister "Maggie" 26 December 1963
Wikipedia Jim Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875  – 19 April 1955) was a British huntertrackernaturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions. He authored Man-Eaters of KumaonJungle Lore, and other books recounting his hunts and experiences, which enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success. He became an avid photographer and spoke out for the need to protect India's wildlife from extermination.

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