Colour sketch of Gordon-Cumming in Highland dress

Empire Stories: The Lion Hunter of Fort Augustus

A tropical palm-leaf hat with a wide brim and shallow crown is displayed discreetly on a wall in the museum’s Victorian gallery. The hat once belonged to the infamous big game hunter Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (1820-1866). The museum once also had his walking stick, which was iron shod with a plaster head of lion separately […]

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