Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, and author Lt Col John Henry Patterson, DSO (1867-1947) is well known for his book "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo," which describes his adventures while constructing a railway bridge in present-day Kenya. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the British Army in 1885. He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). In 1920, he retired from the Army. J. H. Patterson served as the East Africa Protectorate's Chief Game Warden from 1907 to 1909; he writes about this experience in his second book, "In the Grip of Nyika." When he shot an "unusual" looking eland in Tsavo in 1906, the species was named after him and is now known as the Patterson's eland. After risking his life to eliminate the "Man-eaters" all by himself, he was rewarded by the locals and the workers who gave him an engraved silver bowl to show their appreciation. Patterson considered this his hardest-earned and most valuable trophy. Patterson sold the skins and skulls of the lions to the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago for the sum of $5,000.