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Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
Elsie Bambridge (née Kipling; 2 February 1896 – 24 May 1976) was the second daughter of British writer Rudyard Kipling. She was the only one of the Kiplings' three children to survive beyond early adulthood. [1] On 22 October 1924, Elsie Kipling married George Bambridge and in 1938 they bought Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire's largest stately ...
Pages in category "Family of Rudyard Kipling" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Elsie Bambridge; K.
The house's setting and the wider local area features in many of his stories. Kipling's poem "The Land" is inspired by the Bateman's estate. [9] Kipling's only son, John, was killed at the Battle of Loos on 29 September 1915. [10] Kipling died on 18 January 1936, of peritonitis. [11] Carrie died three years later, in 1939.
John Lockwood Kipling and Rudyard Kipling, c.1890. John Lockwood Kipling CIE (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911) was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling. [1]
Alice was born on 4 April 1837 in Sheffield. [1] She married John Lockwood Kipling whom she had met at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire.They married in March 1865, after he was made Architectural Sculptor and Professor of Modelling at the School of Art and Industry in Bombay (now known as Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art) during the preceding January, Alice became the mother of Rudyard ...
John Kipling (17 August 1897 – 27 September 1915) was the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. In the First World War, his father used his influence to get him a commission in the British Army despite being decisively rejected for poor eyesight. His death at the Battle of Loos caused his family immense grief.
John Lockwood Kipling and Alice MacDonald met in 1863 and courted at Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire, England. They married in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington on 18 March 1865 and moved to India later the same year. They had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that when their first child was born they named him after it.