![]() ![]() The British defeat at Majuba in 1881 ended with the Transvaal being given back to the Dutch by the British, so the Haggards returned to England to live in Ditchingham, Norfolk. Haggard would name three of his daughters after heroines in his books. On 11 August 1880 Haggard married Englishwoman Mariana Louisa Margitson. Haggard would later dedicate Nada the Lily (1892) to Sir Theophilus Shepstone and Marie (1912) to Sir Henry Bulwer. ![]() This period of his life would provide the initial inspiration and material for his future novels. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, an area to become part of South Africa. Haggard was present in Pretoria to read the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal because the Governor had lost his voice. Once there, for a time he accompanied Sir Theophilus Shepstone into the Transvaal where Zulus, Boers, and Britons fought for supremacy. Up to that point, disappointed in his son's progress, in 1875 Haggard's father offered to Sir Henry Bulwer, then lieutenant-governor of Natal, the secretarial service of his nineteen year old son to live with him and assist in the running of his Natal estate. Haggard attended the Ipswich grammar school and also received tutoring at home. ![]()
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