Five Years Passed. Again It Was Summer. Mostyn With His Wife And His
Only Child, Richard, Jr., Lived In The Mitchell Mansion, Which, Save
For A New Coat Of Paint, Was Unchanged. Mostyn Himself Was
Considerably Altered In Appearance. There Were Deeper Lines In His
Face; He Was Thinner, More Given To Nervousness And Loss Of Sleep; His
Hair Was Turning Gray; He Had Been Told By His Doctor That He Worried
Too Much And That He Must Check The Tendency.
Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, came from a line of Danish descent and was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet.[2] He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his older brothers who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School.[3] This was because[4] his father, who perhaps regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much,[5] 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,[3] for which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena.[6]
Five Years Passed. Again It Was Summer. Mostyn With His Wife And His
Only Child, Richard, Jr., Lived In The Mitchell Mansion, Which, Save
For A New Coat Of Paint, Was Unchanged. Mostyn Himself Was
Considerably Altered In Appearance. There Were Deeper Lines In His
Face; He Was Thinner, More Given To Nervousness And Loss Of Sleep; His
Hair Was Turning Gray; He Had Been Told By His Doctor That He Worried
Too Much And That He Must Check The Tendency.
Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, came from a line of Danish descent and was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet.[2] He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his older brothers who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School.[3] This was because[4] his father, who perhaps regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much,[5] 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,[3] for which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena.[6]