Men-at-the-Bar/Haggard, Henry Rider

by Joseph Foster

Haggard, Henry Rider, Master of the High Court of the Transvaal, 1877-9, private secretary to Sir H. Bulwer, 1875, on staff of special commissioner to South African Republic (Sir T. Shepstone) 1877, author of Cetewayo and His White Neighbours 1882, Dawn 1884; The Witch's Head 1885, a student of Lincoln's Inn 23 Jan., 1882 (then aged 25), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1885 (6th son of William Meybohm Rider Haggard, Esq., of Bradenham Thorpe, Norfolk, and of Lincoln's Inn, bar.-at-law); born 22 June, 1856; married 11 Aug., 1880, Mariana Louisa, only child and sole heir of late Major Margitson, 19th regt.

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