Philip Percival | |
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| Born | Philip Hope Percival 1886 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northern England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1966 (aged 79–80) |
| Occupation(s) | White hunter, safari guide |
Philip Hope Percival (1886–1966) was an English-born renowned white hunter and early safari guide in colonial Kenya. During his career, he guided Theodore Roosevelt, Baron Rothschild, and Ernest Hemingway on African hunts. Hemingway modelled the fictional hunter Robert Wilson in his story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" after Percival. Percival also worked with well-known white hunters like Bror von Blixen-Finecke and mentored Sydney Downey and Harry Selby, and was known in African hunting circles as the "Dean of Hunters".