Who was George Adamson? George Alexander Graham Adamson was born 3 February 1906 in Etawah, then British India. Educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, England, he first visited Kenya in 1924. After a series of jobs, which included time as a gold prospector, goat trader, and professional safari hunter, he joined Kenyas game department in 1938 and was Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier District. Six years later, he married Joy. It was in 1956 that he raised the lioness cub, Elsa, who became the subject of the 1966 feature film Born Free. Adamson retired as a game warden in 1961 and devoted himself to his many lions. In 1970, he moved to the Kora National Reserve in northern Kenya to continue the rehabilitation of captive or orphaned big cats for eventual reintroduction into the wild. George and Joy separated in 1970, but continued to spend Christmas holidays together until she was murdered on 3 January 1980. On 20 August 1989 George Adamson was murdered in Kenya, East Africa, by Somalian bandits when he went to the rescue of his assistant and a young European tourist in the Kora National Park. He is buried in the Kora National Park near his brother Terrance, Super Cub (Terrances favourite lion), and his beloved lion friend Boy. He most likely would have had Christian buried next to him as well, but Christian was believed by George to have moved to new territory across the Tana river following a period of time in Kora after being entrusted to George by his previous owners, John Rendall and Anthony Bourke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamson
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