OBITUARY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 May 1925, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD. BY CABLE —I’RESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received May 15 9.26 a.in. JAINuON, May 14. Obituary.—Sir Henry Rider Haggard.—Reuter. This distinguished novelist and ag‘ ieultural economist was born at Bra denham, Norfolk, oil June 22, 1856, and was educated at Ipswich Grammar School. He held various official posts in South Africa from 1875 to 1879. He was called to the Bar - at Lincoln’s Inn in 1871), and published his first work, •‘Cetewayo,” and his “White .Neighbours” in 1882. South Africa figured prominently in his novels, the success of which is largely due to the autnors exceptional narrative and descriptive power. In addition to “King Solomon’s Mines”, (1885), his most successful adventure story, and “.Jess” (i 887), perhaps his best work, his novels include “Day'll” (1884), ‘‘The Witch’s Head” (1885), “She” (1887), in which mystery is blended with adventuie, “Allan Quatermain” (1887), “Maiwa’s Revenge” (1888), “Col. Quaritca, V.C.” (1888), “Cleopatra” (1889). “Allan’s Wife” (1890), “Bright Eyes” (1891), “Nada the Lily” (1892), “Montezuma’s Daughter” (1893). “Joan Haste” (1895), “The Heart oi the World” (1896), “Cysbeth” (1901), “Stella Eregelius” (1904), “Ayesha ’ (1905), “Fair Margaret” (1907), “Red Eve” (1911), “When the World Shook’ (1919) and “Ancient Allan” (1920;. In 1891, with Andrew Lang, lie wrote “.The World’s Desire.”

Sir Rider Haggard, who was knighted in 1912, also became prominent as a practical farmer and an agricultural economist, his journeyings through England in 1896-98 to investigate rural conditions .resulting in a most valuable work, “Rural England” (1902)". He also wrote a number of agricultural treatises. After the war He visited every part of the British Empire in connection with the settlement of ex-service men.