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- John Rendall, a member of The Chelsea Society and The Chelsea Arts Club, who lived at World’s End, and was an active supporter of The Chelsea Theatre, has died on 20th January 2022. He is remembered as a Socialite and conservationist whose pet lion cub, Christian, purchased on a whim for 250 guineas in Harrods, became a Chelsea celebrity.
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Jan 26, 2022 · The iconic socialite who famously took his pet lion for walks around central London has died aged 76. John Rendall and his friend Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke bought Christian the lion from Harrods in...
Jan 26, 2022 · John Rendall, the eccentric animal-lover that famously bought a lion from Harrods in 1969, has died at 76. It's a video that has been watched over 100 million times on YouTube: a lion, now living in Kenya, but once the pet of an Englishman, bounds up to his former owner and hugs him.
Jan 27, 2022 · The story of Christian the lion, the pet of a London socialite in the 1960s, has resurfaced after his previous owner, John Rendall, died aged 77. Rendall, also known as the Lion Man of...
- Robyn White
Jan 26, 2022 · John Rendall, the socialite dubbed the Lion Man of Chelsea after buying a pet lion from Harrods and walking him around London, has died aged 76.
- Josh Salisbury
Christian the lion (12 August 1969 – ?) was a lion born in captivity and purchased by Australian John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke from Harrods department store in London in 1969. He was later reintroduced to the African wild by conservationist George Adamson.
- John Rendall, Anthony Bourke
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Jan 28, 2022 · John Rendall, who has died aged 76, walked into the pet department at Harrods in 1969 and, with his friend and fellow Australian Anthony Bourke, bought a lion cub which transformed his life.
Jan 26, 2022 · John Rendall, who rescued Christian the lion from a cramped cage in an exotic pet shop in Harrods, spent much of his life telling the lion's story. John Rendall and then-flatmate Anthony...
