John Talbot Clifton

He became a compulsive traveller who explored Canada, Siberia, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Africa and South America, and was known for shooting wild animals and eating them.

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)[1] and a Canadian marmot.

After the First World War, during which Talbot had volunteered as a dispatch driver, the couple bought Kylemore House in Connemara, Ireland.

In 1922 they bought and moved to live at Kildalton Castle on the Scottish island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides where his passion for shooting wildlife continued unabated.

She later wrote a biography of her husband, published under the title The Book of Talbot, which won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize.