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Allan Quatermain
Haggard, Henry Rider
Published: 1887
Type(s): Novels, Adventure
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About Haggard:
Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William
Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and
poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsing-
ton Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend . Graham
but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public
Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was be-
cause his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to
amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive
private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a
private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the
British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s
father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secret-
ary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this
role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement
of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact,
Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the
proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrus-
ted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Li-
lith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employ-
ment in South Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in
the Transvaal, but when he sent his father a letter telling him that he in-
tended to return to England in order to marry Lilith Jackson his father
replied that he forbade it until he had made a career for himself. In 1879
he heard that Lilith had married someone else. When he eventually re-
turned to England he married a friend of his sister, Mariana Louisa Mar-
gitson and brought her back to Africa. Later they had a son named Jock
(who die