George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the Baba ya Simba ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, were depicted in the film Born Free and best-selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they had raised and later released into the wild. Several other films have been made based on the Adamsons' lives. George Alexander Graham Adamson was born 3 February 1906 in Etawah, India to English and Irish parents. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, England and moved to work on his father's coffee plantations Kenya in 1924. After the death of his parents, he worked a series of jobs, which included time as a gold prospector, goat trader and professional safari hunter, before joining Kenya's wildlife department in 1938, working as game warden. Six years later, he married Friederike Victoria "Joy" Gessner. It was in 1956 that he raised the lioness cub, Elsa, who he helped to release into the wild and who became the subject of the 1966 feature film Born Free based on the book written by Joy. More information...
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