Bertram Mitford (novelist)

Bertram Mitford (13 June 1855 – 4 October 1914) was an English 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