Bertram Mitford (novelist)

Bertram Mitford (13 June 1855 – 4 October 1914) was a colonial writer, novelist, essayist and cultural critic who wrote forty-four books, most of which are set in South Africa.

He was a contemporary of H Rider Haggard. A member of the Mitford family, he was the third son of Edward Ledwich Osbaldeston Mitford (1811–1912). The latter became the 31st Lord of the Manor of Mitford in 1895 (following the death of his brother Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston Mitford) and died at Mitford Hall, Northumberland, in 1912.

Bertram Mitford was born in Bath in 1855, educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex, went to southern Africa in 1874, living in Cheltenham 1881, married Zima Helen Gentle, daughter of Alfred Ebden, 9 March 1886 in Brighton, had daughter Yseulte Helen 3 June 1887 (died July 1969), had son Roland Bertram 17 June 1891 (died 16 April 1932), living in London 1891, and died in Cowfold, Sussex of liver disease in 1914.

He belonged to four London clubs: Junior Athenaeum, Savage, New Vagabond, and Wigwam.

Partial bibliography

Our arms in Zululand – 1881 – poems

Through the Zululand – 1883 – non fiction

The Fire Trumpet – Blackett 1889

The Weird of Deadly Hollow – Sutton 1891

Golden Face – Trischler – 1892

Tween Snow and Fire- Heinemann – Cassell 1892

The Curses of Clement Waynflete – Ward 1894

The King's Assegai – Chatto -1894

The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley – Chatto 1894

Renshaw Fanning's Quest – Chatto 1894

The White Shield – Cassell 1895

A Veldt Official – Ward 1895

The Sign of the Spider – Methuen 1896

The Expiation of Wynne Palliser – Ward 1896

Fordham's Feud – Ward 1897

The Induna's Wife – White 1898

The Ruby Sword – White 1899

The Gun-Runner – Chatto 1899

Aletta – White 1900

John Ames, Native Commissioner – White 1900

The Triumph of Hilary Blachland – Chatto 1901

The Word of the Sorceress – Hutchinson 1902

A Veldt Vendetta – Ward 1903

Dorrien of Cranston – Hurst 1903

Forging the Blades – Nash 1903

Haviland's Chum – Chatto 1903

In the Whirl of the Rising – Methuen 1904

The Red Derelict – Methuen 1904

The Sirdar's Oath – White 1904

A Frontier Mystery – White 1905

A Secret of the Lebombo – Hurst 1905

Harley Greenoak's Charge – Chatto 1906

The White Hand and the Black – Long 1907

A Legacy of the Granite Hills – Long 1909

A Border Scourge – Long 1910

A Duel Resurrection – Ward 1910

Ravenshaw of Rietholme – Ward 1910

The Heath Hover Mystery – Ward 1911

The River of Unrest – Ward 1912

Seaford's snake – Ward 1912

Selmin of Selmingfold – Ward 1912

Averno – Ward 1913

An Island of Eden – Ward 1913

References

"Colonial Voices" Prof Gerald Monsman

Burke's Peerage 107th edition

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19th-century English novelists

20th-century English novelists

1855 births

1914 deaths

People educated at Hurstpierpoint College

Deaths from liver disease

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Victorian novelists

English male novelists

Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society

Writers from Bath, Somerset

People from Cowfold