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{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral (1874–1960)}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard
|birth_date= 28 October 1874
|death_date= 30 January 1960 (aged 85)
|birth_place= [[Bengal]], India
|death_place= [[Southend]], Essex, England
|image=Admiral Haggard at Vancouver 1930.jpg
|caption=Vice-Admiral Haggard (left) at [[Vancouver]] in 1930 with Mayor [[William Harold Malkin|Malkin]] (right)
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
|serviceyears= 1888–1932
|rank= [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]]
|branch= [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|23px]] [[Royal Navy]]
|commands=[[HMS Boadicea (1908)|HMS ''Boadicea'']] [[HMS Blenheim (1890)|HMS ''Blenheim'']] [[HMS Good Hope (1901)|HMS ''Good Hope'']] [[HMS Vulcan (1889)|HMS ''Vulcan'']] [[HMS Hibernia (1905)|HMS ''Hibernia'']] [[HMS Highflyer (1898)|HMS ''Highflyer'']] [[HMS Ajax (1912)|HMS ''Ajax'']] [[North America and West Indies Station|America and West Indies Station]]
|unit=
|battles=[[Benin Expedition of 1897|Benin Expedition]] [[World War I]]
|awards=[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Croix de Guerre]]
|laterwork=
}}
[[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] '''Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard''', [[Order of the Bath|KCB]], [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] (28 October 1874 – 30 January 1960) was a [[Royal Navy]] officer who went on to be [[North America and West Indies Station|Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station]]. His career in the Royal Navy spanned forty-four years, from his entry as a youth in 1888 to his promotion to admiral in 1932.

==Background==
Haggard, the eldest child of Alfred Hinuber Haggard and his wife Alice Geraldine Schalch Haggard, was born on 28 October 1874 in [[Bengal]], [[India]].<ref name=burkes>{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 1|year=1894|publisher=Harrison|isbn=9780394487267|page=851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93M-AQAAIAAJ&q=brother%2C+Sir+Vernon+Haggard&pg=PA851|author=Sir Bernard Burke|author-link=Bernard Burke|edition=8|author2=Ashworth Peter Burke |access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Vernon H|title=1881 England Census|publisher=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (as reprinted on [[Ancestry.com]])}}</ref> His father was a [[Bengal Civil Service]] official.<ref name=burkes/> Vernon Haggard was the nephew of prolific author [[Sir Henry Rider Haggard]], who achieved literary fame with his romances ''[[King Solomon's Mines]]'' and ''[[She: A History of Adventure]]''.<ref name=burkes/><ref>{{cite web|title=H. Rider Haggard|url=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199799558/obo-9780199799558-0053.xml|publisher=Oxford Bibliographies|access-date=5 April 2013|author=Roger Luckhurst}}</ref> He was also the brother of diplomat [[Godfrey Haggard|Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard]], who served as British [[Consul (representative)|Consul General]] at New York City during [[World War II]].<ref name=burkes/><ref name=montreal>{{cite news|title=G. D. N. Haggard Named, Appointed British Consul-General at New York|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19380609&id=xr00AAAAIBAJ&pg=2320,1359381|access-date=5 April 2013|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]|date=10 June 1938|page=12}}</ref><ref name=churchill>{{cite book|title=The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War, 1941|year=2001|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]]|isbn=9780393019599|page=692|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vx3lMi6AKmIC&q=Godfrey+Digby+Napier+Haggard&pg=PA692|author=Sir Winston Churchill|author-link=Sir Winston Churchill|author2=Martin Gilbert|author2-link=Martin Gilbert|access-date=7 April 2013}}</ref> In addition, he was the uncle of actor and writer [[Stephen Haggard|Stephen Hubert Avenel Haggard]], whose life was the subject of [[Christopher Hassall]]'s ''The Timeless Quest''.<ref name=cwgc>{{cite web|title=Haggard, Stephen Hubert Avenel|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2209071/HAGGARD,%20STEPHEN%20HUBERT%20AVENEL|publisher=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]|access-date=7 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Timeless Quest: Stephen Haggard|year=1946|publisher=Arthur Barker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJrqMgEACAAJ|author=Christopher Hassall|author-link=Christopher Hassall|access-date=7 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Haggard is Dead on Active Service; British Actor and Novelist, Son of Consul General Here, Was Army Captain in Near East, Had Big Roles in London, Made Debut in Munich Under Reinhardt in 1930 – Played Here in 1934 and 1938|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0911F9355D167B93C6A91788D85F478485F9|access-date=7 April 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=3 March 1943}}</ref>

==Naval career==
Haggard joined the Royal Navy as a youth in 1888.<ref name=lh>{{cite web|last=Haggard|first=Sir Vernon (Harry Stuart) (1874–1960), Admiral|title=Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900–1975|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HAGGARD.shtml|publisher=[[Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]]|access-date=7 April 2013}}</ref> On 14 May 1894, Acting Sub-Lieutenant Haggard was promoted to sub-lieutenant.<ref>{{cite web|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/26680/pages/6182|access-date=6 April 2013|page=6182|date=15 November 1895}}</ref> He took part in the [[Benin Expedition of 1897|Benin Expedition]] to [[Nigeria]] in 1897.<ref name=lh/> In late December 1905, the lieutenant was promoted to commander.<ref>{{cite web|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27870/pages/25|access-date=6 April 2013|page=25|date=2 January 1906}}</ref> He commanded [[HMS Boadicea (1908)|HMS ''Boadicea'']] in 1911.<ref name=lh/> Commander Haggard received the Insignia of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1912.<ref>{{cite web|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28599/pages/2702|access-date=6 April 2013|page=2702|date=16 April 1912}}</ref> He commanded [[HMS Blenheim (1890)|HMS ''Blenheim'']] that year, and both [[HMS Good Hope (1901)|HMS ''Good Hope'']] and [[HMS Vulcan (1889)|HMS ''Vulcan'']] in 1913.<ref name=lh/> Captain Haggard was also put in command of the Seventh Submarine Flotilla in 1913.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Naval Notes|journal=Royal United Services Institution. Journal|date=1913|volume=57|issue=428|pages=1381–1391|doi=10.1080/03071841309427200}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Collections listing for part of Haggard Vernon (Admiral Sir)|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205006549?items_per_page=10&page=1|publisher=[[Imperial War Museum]]s|access-date=7 April 2013}}</ref> He served throughout [[World War I]], commanding [[HMS Hibernia (1905)|HMS ''Hibernia'']] in 1915 and later the cadet training vessel [[HMS Highflyer (1898)|HMS ''Highflyer'']].<ref name=lh/>

In 1919, the captain received the [[Croix de Guerre]] from the [[French Republic]], and became a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.<ref>{{cite web|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31354/supplements/6449|access-date=5 April 2013|page=6449|date=24 May 1919}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31379/supplements/7047|access-date=5 April 2013|page=7047|date=3 June 1919}}</ref> After the war, he was in charge of the [[Danube Flotilla (Royal Navy)|Naval Brigade on the Danube]] and then commanded the battleship [[HMS Ajax (1912)|HMS ''Ajax'']] from 1920 to 1921.<ref name=lh/> He was appointed Director of Training and Staff Duties at the [[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|Admiralty]] in 1921 and was promoted to rear admiral two years later.<ref name=lh/><ref>{{cite web|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32811/pages/2511|access-date=6 April 2013|page=2511|date=3 April 1923}}</ref> On 1 January 1925, Haggard became a Companion of the Order of the Bath and that year was appointed [[Commodore Submarine Service|Chief of the Submarine Service]].<ref name=lh/><ref>{{cite web|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33007/supplements/2|access-date=5 April 2013|date=1 January 1925}}</ref> He was promoted from rear admiral to vice admiral and became [[Fourth Sea Lord|Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport]] in 1928.<ref name=lh/><ref>{{cite web|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33362/pages/149|access-date=7 April 2013|page=1493|date=2 March 1928}}</ref> He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the America and West Indies Station in 1930.<ref name=montreal/><ref name=lh/> Haggard became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 3 June 1931.<ref>{{cite web|title=Supplement to the London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33722/supplements/3625|access-date=5 April 2013|page=3625|date=3 June 1931}}</ref> He was promoted from vice admiral to admiral the following year, effective 20 October 1932.<ref name=londongazette>{{cite news|title=The London Gazette|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33875/pages/6626/page.pdf|access-date=5 April 2013|date=21 October 1932|page=6626}}</ref> Admiral Haggard retired from the Royal Navy that year.<ref name=montreal/><ref name=lh/>

==Family==
In 1905, Haggard married Dorothy Booker Ellis, the daughter of Richard Adam Ellis and his wife Emma Eliza Booker Ellis, of [[Stock, Essex|Stock]] in Essex.<ref name=phillips>{{cite web|title=Stock History – The Twentieth Century|url=http://www.stock.org.uk/history/twentieth-century.htm|publisher=The Village of Stock in Essex|access-date=5 April 2013|author=Charles Phillips}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Vernon Harry S|title=England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837–1915|publisher=General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Booker|first=Emma Eliza|title=London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754–1921|publisher=Church of England Parish Registers, 1754–1921. London Metropolitan Archives (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref> They had three daughters: Avice Dorothy Haggard Lyster,<ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Avice|title=1911 England Census|publisher=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Avice D|title=England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916–2005|publisher=General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref> Rosamond A Haggard Hunt,<ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Rosamond|title=1911 England Census|publisher=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Rosamond A|title=England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916–2005|publisher=General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref> and Elizabeth G E Haggard Gibbon.<ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Elizabeth|title=UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878–1960|publisher=Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Elizabeth G E|title=England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916–2005|publisher=General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref> The couple had one son, [[Hugh Haggard|Hugh Alfred Vernon Haggard]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|DSC]], also of the Royal Navy, who was the [[commanding officer]] of the submarine [[HMS Truant|HMS ''Truant'']] during World War II.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bermuda's Royal Navy base at Ireland Island from 1815 to the 1960s|url=http://www.bermuda-online.org/rnd.htm|publisher=Bermuda Online|access-date=5 April 2013|author=Keith Archibald Forbes}}</ref><ref name=warillustrated>{{cite book|title=The War Illustrated, Volume 6, No. 146|page=509|url=http://www.thewarillustrated.info/146/i-was-there-our-80000-miles-in-the-triumphant-truant.asp|access-date=5 April 2013|date=22 January 1943}}</ref> Lieutenant Commander H A V Haggard's exploits in that submarine led to "Haggard of the ''Truant''" being referred to as "Britain's Submarine Ace No. 1," with his vessel nicknamed "the adventure ship."<ref name=warillustrated/><ref>{{cite news|title=Thrilling Stories of Under-Sea Warfare; Britain's Submarine Ace No. 1|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59165980|access-date=7 April 2013|newspaper=[[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|The Sunday Times]]|date=1 March 1942}}</ref>

==Later life==
Following his retirement in 1932, Haggard resided with his family at Little Court in Stock.<ref>{{cite web|title=Memories of Stock|url=http://www.stock.org.uk/memories/Charles-Phillips/MEMORIES%201-5.pdf|access-date=7 April 2013|publisher=The Village of Stock in Essex|author=Charles Phillips}}</ref> He wrote the foreword to [[Hudson Strode]]'s ''The Story of Bermuda'', the first of the author's travel books.<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1946|year=1947|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|page=637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTMhAQAAIAAJ&q=Sir+Vernon+Haggard&pg=PA637|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hudson Strode|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-2485|publisher=Encyclopedia of Alabama|access-date=7 April 2013|author=James P. Kaetz}}</ref> In addition, he was one of several military officers involved in the running of the Stock United Football Club.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stock United F.C.|url=http://www.stock.org.uk/fc/History.htm|publisher=The Village of Stock in Essex|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> Haggard died on 30 January 1960 at 90 Crowstone Road in [[Southend]], Essex.<ref name=probate>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Sir Vernon Harry Stuart|title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966|publisher=Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref> His funerary box was borne on a gun carriage, accompanied by an escort of fifty representatives of the Royal Navy.<ref name=phillips/> After three volleys were fired at his graveside, the [[Royal Marines]] played the [[Last Post]] and [[Reveille]].<ref name=phillips/> He was interred at All Saints Churchyard in Stock.<ref name=phillips/><ref>{{cite web|title=Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Haggard&GSfn=Vernon&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=32143586&df=all&|publisher=Find A Grave|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> His estate went to probate on 21 March 1960.<ref name=probate/> Lady Haggard died the following year, on 2 January 1961, at Chelmsford and Essex Hospital in Essex.<ref>{{cite book|last=Haggard|first=Dorothy Booker|title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966|publisher=Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England (as reprinted on Ancestry.com)}}</ref>

==Legacy==
A collection of photographs of Vernon Haggard is held by the [[Imperial War Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Haggard Vernon (Admiral Sir)|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/listing/object-205006549|publisher=Imperial War Museums|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> In addition, the [[National Register of Archives]] and the [[Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]] at [[King's College London]] indicate that the Imperial War Museum serves as the repository for Haggard's five volumes of journals, covering the period from 1888 to 1932, and other papers, dated from 1885 to 1932.<ref name=lh/><ref>{{cite web|title=Haggard, Sir Vernon Harry Stuart (1874–1960) Knight Admiral|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P12530|publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]]|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> The [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in London also has a portrait of Admiral Haggard that was obtained by photographer [[Walter Stoneman]] in 1930.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard (1874–1960), Admiral|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp134289/sir-vernon-harry-stuart-haggard|publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]]|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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