GORDON-CUMMING,ROUALEYN GEORGE (182o 1866), Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter," was born on March 15, 1820, the second son of Sir William G. Gordon-Cumming, second baronet of Altyre and Gor donstown. He was educated at Eton, and served in the Madras Light Cavalry and later in the Cape Mounted Rifles. At the end of 1843 he sold out, and with a few native followers set out for the interior, hunting in Bechuanaland and the Limpopo valley. In 1848 he returned to England and published his book, Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa (185o, 3rd ed. 1851). His collection of hunting trophies was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and afterwards exhibited in various parts of the country. He died at Fort Augustus, Scotland, on March 24, 1866.
An abridgment of his book, The Lion Hunter of South Africa (1856), has been frequently reprinted.