Lilias Rider Haggard

Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa Margitson and a cousin of the naval officer Sir Vernon Haggard and the diplomat Sir Godfrey Haggard.

A member of the Haggard family, she was educated at Saint Felix School in Southwold, Suffolk. For her work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment auxiliary nurse during the First World War, she was awarded an MBE in 1920. and is the subject of a 2015 biography by Victoria Manthorpe.

Books I Walked by Night: Being the Life History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers, written by himself, editor (1935), illus. Edward Seago The Rabbit Skin Cap: A Tale of a Norfolk Countryman's Youth, editor (1939), illus. Edward Seago Norfolk Life (1943), with Henry Williamson A Norfolk Notebook (1946) A Country Scrapbook (1950), illus. Wilfred S. Pettitt The Cloak That I Left: A Biography of the Author Henry Rider Haggard (1951) Too Late for Tears (1969), a biography of her mother and her family