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was supporting his own family. He also knew that it would be his responsibility to look after his mother and two sisters in later years. In turn they, especially his one-year older sister Maggie, were quite devoted to him. Leaving home at the age of seventeen, he took his first job as a temporary fuel inspector in
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Corbett, the eighth and penultimate child of Christopher William and Mary Jane, was born on 25 July 1875 in Naini Tal. His early childhood years were privileged, and he was cared for by his mother, his elder sisters, and local servants; from the latter, he picked up the local languages,
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quills embedded deep in the skin or gunshot wounds that had not healed, like that of the
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A reserve area known as Hailey
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in northern India which had been untouched by the Mutiny. There, he and Mary Jane had nine children, and additionally raised four children of a deceased sister. As
Christopher William's salary was not large enough to support so many people, they supplemented their income through shrewd property
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After the Third Anglo-Afghan War finished in 1919, Corbett declined to return to the railways, and worked on a Kumaon house agency he had invested in and whose owner had subsequently died. Corbett expanded this business, named F.E.G. Mathews & Co. after its late owner, into hardware and
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Company. They set sail from
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as well as the cargo shipping. This promotion gave him a large increase in salary, much of which he remitted to his family in Naini Tal, as well as access to the high-ranking travellers who often crossed the Ganges, such as Indian royalty and
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broke out, but the railway authorities refused to release him from his contract, believing he was too valuable in his position at Mokameh Ghat. When the
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On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops
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564:The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
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1041:Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2009).
971:The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon
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1692:Hero of Kumaon : The Life of Jim Corbett
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1628:Carpet Sahib: A Life of Jim Corbett
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967:. Oxford University Press, 1953
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955:. Oxford University Press, 1948
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459:German spring offensive
420:Prime Minister of Nepal
222:Ancestry and early life
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1695:. Merlin Unwin Books.
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1604:The London Gazette
1584:The London Gazette
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