Hello all,
I purchased this rifle in London last year, The original owner was an interesting chap, he used this rifle all over the world on many adventures.
John Talbot Clifton (1 December 1868 – 23 March 1928), known as Talbot Clifton, was an English landowner, traveler, and world renown hunter.
He was born the son of Thomas Henry Clifton of Lytham Hall, Lancashire and his wife Madeline Agnew. John Talbot was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He succeeded his grandfather, John Talbot Clifton I (1819–1882), who had been MP for Lancashire and High Sheriff of Lancashire 1853, Upon his grandfather’s passing, Talbot became the owner of the Lytham estate at the age of 14.
He became a compulsive traveler and hunter who explored and hunted in Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa, and South America, and was known for his shooting ability. 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) and in Canada (Clifton's Marmot). Talbot noted in one of his writings that on a particular hunt he once dined on mammoth he and his expedition recovered frozen from the arctic permafrost.
In 1928 Talbot embarked on his final hunting journey to Timbuktu with his wife, but he fell ill en route. They turned back in Mali but in 1928 he died in the Canary Islands. His wife later wrote a biography of her husband, published under the title The Book of Talbot, which won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize.
Within the book there is a photo of Talbot with his 275 Rigby.
I purchased this rifle in London last year, The original owner was an interesting chap, he used this rifle all over the world on many adventures.
John Talbot Clifton (1 December 1868 – 23 March 1928), known as Talbot Clifton, was an English landowner, traveler, and world renown hunter.
He was born the son of Thomas Henry Clifton of Lytham Hall, Lancashire and his wife Madeline Agnew. John Talbot was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He succeeded his grandfather, John Talbot Clifton I (1819–1882), who had been MP for Lancashire and High Sheriff of Lancashire 1853, Upon his grandfather’s passing, Talbot became the owner of the Lytham estate at the age of 14.
He became a compulsive traveler and hunter who explored and hunted in Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa, and South America, and was known for his shooting ability. 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) and in Canada (Clifton's Marmot). Talbot noted in one of his writings that on a particular hunt he once dined on mammoth he and his expedition recovered frozen from the arctic permafrost.
In 1928 Talbot embarked on his final hunting journey to Timbuktu with his wife, but he fell ill en route. They turned back in Mali but in 1928 he died in the Canary Islands. His wife later wrote a biography of her husband, published under the title The Book of Talbot, which won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize.
Within the book there is a photo of Talbot with his 275 Rigby.
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