Lilias Rider Haggard

[2] 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.

[1] She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left.

Her book Norfolk Life, based on columns she wrote for the Eastern Daily Press, contains an introduction by Henry Williamson.

[citation needed] She is buried at Ditchingham, Norfolk,[4] and is the subject of a 2015 biography by Victoria Manthorpe.