![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and wasforced to read out much of the proclamation following the lossof voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. It was in thisrole that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcementof the British annexation of the Boer Republic ofthe Transvaal. Instead Haggard’s father sent him toAfrica in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to theLieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. After failing his army entranceexam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to preparefor the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which inthe end he never sat. This was becausehis father, who regarded him as somebody who was notgoing to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintainhis expensive private education. Graham but, unlike hisolder brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, heended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. He was the eighth of ten children.He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshireto study under the Reverend H.J. About Haggard:Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, toSir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and EllaDoveton, an author and poet. ![]()
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