W. Robert Foran

William Robert Foran (1881–1968) was a British Army officer, big game hunter and travel writer.

Foran trained at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into British Army as it was enlarged during the Second Boer War in South Africa.

While in South Africa, he transferred to a regular army regiment as second lieutenant in The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry) on 23 April 1902,[1] and after the end of the war that year left Natal for British India in November 1902.

[3] He traveled from Johannesburg to Mombasa, Kenya in 1904, and then to the newly founded city of Nairobi to buy land for farming.

[4] Foran worked as a travel writer for the National Geographic Society and wrote Malayan Symphony: Being The Impressions Gathered During A Six months' Journey Through The Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java And Bali about his 1935 trip through Southeast Asia.