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Name: COTTAR, Glen Woolworth [Calvin]
Nee: son of William Calvin Cottar
Birth Date: 11 Nov 1931 Nairobi
Death Date: 11 Mar 1996 Kenya
First Date: 1931
Last Date: 1996
Profession: Became a professional hunter in 1956. Started the first luxury tented camp in Tsavo East Park in 1965. Glen and son Calvin operate photographic safaris as 'Cottars Safari Services' once again (1988)
Area: Karen, 1950 Nakuru
Married: 1960 Patricia Mary Schofield
Children: Tana Louise (1962); Calvin Harold (1963, continued the family safari business)
Book Reference: Gillett, Sundown, Tsavo, Rundgren, Morkel, Hut, Mrs P. Cottar
War Service: Kenya Regt. KR 3684; 1952 - seconded to Police Intelligence in Emergency
School: Rift Valley Academy, Parklands Primary, Prince of Wales School, Nairobi
General Information:
Ancestry says his name is Glen Woolworth Cottar - and this is written on the consular form of US births abroad
Tsavo - granted the concession of establishing and running the tented camp which became known as Tsavo Safaris
Rundgren - 'You never know which is the greater menace to your happiness - the animals your husband hunts, or the huntresses who hunt him,' says Pat Cottar, Glen Cottar's pretty wife. Glen has been hunting 12 years and Pat believes he still does most of his 'high-heel tracking' up his own garden path. But another hunter's wife told me that, at a conservative estimate, her husband had had affairs with at least one in every 5 of his woman clients.
Morkel - (Elephant surprise) Like the one Glen Cottar and his client tracked, which Glen claimed they would not have tracked at all, but since they could not find any other tracks in that particular area to follow, they tracked this seemingly pint-sized elephant and ended up with its tusks in the bag, weighing over 130 pounds a side .........…
Letter from Mrs P. Cottar - From 1956 to 1963 with White Hunters (Africa) Ltd., Nairobi; started own safari company in 1964 - Glen Cottar Safaris; initiated the concept of tented camp accommodation for regular tourists in 1965 with a camp (permanent) in Tsavo East National Park, originally called Tsavo Tsafaris but everyone called it Cottar's Tsavo. Sold that camp in 1975 and started Cottar's Mara in 1977, sold it in 1989 (now Siana Springs). His safaris took him all over Africa, but home base was Nairobi (childhood in Musoma)
FindaGrave Glen Calvin Cottar BIRTH 11 Oct 1931 Nairobi, Kenya DEATH 11 Mar 1996 (aged 64) BURIAL Cremated. Specifically: Memorial in Garden of Remembrance, St Francis Church, Karen, Nairobi. Gravesite Details: in loving memory of / Glen Calvin Cottar / 11.11.31 - 11.3.96 / his ashes are in / his beloved Masai Mara
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