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Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.violetbooks.com/lin-carter.html |title=Lost Races, Forgotten Cities |publisher=Violetbooks.com |date=1925-05-14 |accessdate=2014-05-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140615053343/http://www.violetbooks.com/lin-carter.html |archivedate=15 June 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> His father was born in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, to British parents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/haggard/h_rider/days/chapter1.html|title=The Days of My Life, by H. Rider Haggard : CHAPTER 1|website=ebooks.adelaide.edu.au}}</ref> Haggard was initially sentwent to [[Garsington]] Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his elder brothers who-- they graduated from various [[Private school#Types of private schools in England and Wales|private schools]], -- he attended [[Ipswich School|Ipswich Grammar School]].<ref name="butts">

{{cite book |chapter=Introduction and Chronology; by Dennis Butts. In: |last=Haggard |first=H. Rider |title=King Solomon's Mines |year= 1989|publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=vii–xxviii|nopp=true }}</ref> This was because<ref>Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". ''King Solomon's Mines''. Modern Library Paperback Edition. v.</ref> his father, who perhaps regardedregarding him as somebody who was not going to amount to much,<ref>Haggard, H. Rider (2002). "H. Rider Haggard". ''King Solomon's Mines''. Modern Library Paperback Edition. vi.</ref> could no longer afford to maintainterminated his expensive private education. After failing his army [[entrance exam]], he was sentwent to a private crammer in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the [[British Foreign Office]],<ref name="butts"/> whichbut henever nevertook satthem. During his two years in London, he came into contact with people interested in the study ofstudied psychical phenomena.<ref>H.d.R. [Memoir of Haggard]. In: Haggard, H. Rider (1957) Ayesha. London: Collins</ref>