Richard Meinertzhagen
![Meinertzhagen in 1922](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Meinertzhagen_1922.jpg)
While early biographies lionized Meinertzhagen as a master of military strategy and espionage, later works such as ''The Meinertzhagen Mystery'' present him as a fraud for fabricating stories of his feats and speculated he murdered his wife, in addition to mass extrajudicial killings while in the colonial service. The discovery of stolen museum bird specimens resubmitted as original discoveries has raised serious doubts on the veracity of many of his ornithological records. Provided by Wikipedia
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