Jim Corbett Kills Man-Eating Tiger

Date: April 11, 1930 • Location: New Delhi, India

Anglo-Indian hunter Jim Corbett shot the second of the man-eating tigers of Chowgarh.

Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent conservation movement.