H rider haggard biography for kids

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June – 14 May ) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre[1†][2†][3†].

He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire[1†][3†].

Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet[1†].

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His father was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in to British parents[1†]. A member of the Haggard family, he was the great-nephew of the ecclesiastical lawyer John Haggard and an uncle of the naval officer Admiral Sir Vernon Haggard and the diplomat Sir Godfrey Haggard[1†].

Haggard was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H.

J. Graham, but, unlike his elder brothers, who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School[1†]. This was because his