John Talbot Clifton
John Talbot Clifton (1 December 1868 – 23 March 1928), known as Talbot Clifton, was an English landowner and traveller.
He was born the son of Thomas Henry Clifton of
He became a compulsive traveller who explored Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa and South America, and was known for shooting wild animals and eating them. Some of the animals he shot were species new to science and were named after him, such as a type of wild Siberian sheep (Clifton's bighorn)[1] and a Canadian marmot. He once dined on mammoth recovered frozen from the Arctic permafrost.
He married
After the First World War, during which Talbot had volunteered as a dispatch driver, the couple bought Kylemore House in Connemara, Ireland. There he shot and injured a member of the IRA in an argument over the requisition of his car. In 1922 they bought and moved to live at Kildalton Castle on the Scottish island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides where his passion for shooting wildlife continued unabated.
After several more foreign expeditions he set off on a final journey to
References
- doi:10.1038/066032b0.
- ^ The book of Talbot. New York: Harcourt, Brace and company. 1933.
External links
- "John Talbot Clifton 1868 - 1928". Retrieved 2013-01-13.
- "Talbot Clifton, Kildalton Castle". Retrieved 2013-01-13.
