Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa Margitson[1] and a cousin of the naval officer Sir Vernon Haggard and the diplomat Sir Godfrey Haggard.[2]

A member of the Haggard family, she was educated at Saint Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk. For her work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment auxiliary nurse during the First World War, she was awarded an MBE in 1920.[3][1] She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected president of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild.[1]

She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left. Her book Norfolk Life, based on columns she wrote for the Eastern Daily Press, contains an introduction by Henry Williamson.

She is buried at Ditchingham, Norfolk,[4] and is the subject of a 2015 biography by Victoria Manthorpe.[5]

Books

  • I Walked by Night: Being the Life History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers, written by himself, editor (1935), illus. Edward Seago
  • The Rabbit Skin Cap: A Tale of a Norfolk Countryman's Youth, editor (1939), illus. Edward Seago
  • Norfolk Life (1943), with Henry Williamson
  • A Norfolk Notebook (1946)
  • A Country Scrapbook (1950), illus. Wilfred S. Pettitt
  • The Cloak That I Left: A Biography of the Author Henry Rider Haggard (1951)
  • Too Late for Tears (1969), a biography of her mother and her family

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dawson Haggard D.,The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899 (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at "Haggard/Hoggard Families". Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015. on 3 October 2010
  2. ↑ Burke, B. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 14th ed. (1925). Haggard of Bradenham, pp. 804-806.
  3. ↑ "No. 31840". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 March 1920. p. 3834.
  4. ↑ Literary Norfolk (2007) - retrieved online at http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/ditchingham.htm on 3 October 2010
  5. ↑ Manthorpe, V., Lilias Rider Haggard: Countrywoman (Poppyland Publishing, 2015)
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