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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Saumarez de Havilland

Author: Saumarez de Havilland (1850–1893)

Biography: Saumarez de Havilland was born in 1850 in Downside, Somerset, the son of clergyman Charles Richard de Havilland and his wife Agnes. He attended Trinity College Dublin before entering the Inner Temple and being called to the bar. In the late 1880s, he began contributing to periodicals before publishing three books: a collection of legal stories, an occult novel The Mystic Serpent (1891), and a detective novel Ritherdons Grange (1890). He married but had no children. Havilland died at a relatively young age on 9 January 1893 in Southend, Essex.

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References: Bath Chronicle (26 January 1893); British Census (1881, 1891)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Strange Clients and Other Tales.  1 vol.  London: Iliffe and Son, 1890.
  2. Ritherdons Grange.  1 vol.  London: Trischler, 1890.
  3. The Mystic Serpent.  1 vol.  London: Iliffe and Son, 1891.