Bertram MitfordFRGS[1] (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.
^Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (16 January 1897).
"Review of The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford". The Athenæum (3612): 81.