Haggard, Rider, novelist, born in Norfolk; after service in a civic capacity in Natal, and in partly civil and partly military service in the Transvaal, adopted the profession of literature; first rose into popularity as author in 1885 by the publication of “King Solomon's Mines,” the promise of which was sustained in a measure by a series of subsequent novels beginning with “She” in 1887; (b. 1856).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Haggai * Haggis