Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on 30th December 1865 the son of Professor John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald who had married earlier that year prior to John taking his postion in Bombay as architectural sculptor at the School of Art and Industry. Rudyard was christened as Joseph Rudyard Kipling but always known by his second name which was often shortened to Rud or Ruddy. When Rudyard was five he and his sister Alice were sent home to England to live with a foster family in Southsea. He was educated there and then at the United Services College at Westward Ho! near Bideford in Devon.
In 1882 Rudyard went back to India and returned to England in 1889 when he gained literary success with "Barrack-Room Ballads." He married Caroline Starr Balestier in 1892 and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA where he wrote "Captains Courageous" and "The Jungle Books." In 1896 the Kipling family came to Rottingdean, Sussex where he wrote "Kim", "Stalky &Co.," and "Just So Stories." In 1902 the family settled at Batemans, Burwash where he spent the rest of his life and wrote "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies.". He gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1926.
Rudyard Kipling died on 18th January 1936 and his ashes are buried at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. His autobiography "Something of Myself" written the year before was published posthumously.
| Generation No. 1 | |||
| 1. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the son of Professor John Lockwood Kipling, Architectural Sculptor and Alice Kipling [Macdonald]. He was born 30th Dec 1865 at Bombay, India; died 18th Jan 1936 at Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London; buried after 18th Jan 1936 at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | |||
| He married Caroline Starr Balestier on 18th Jan 1892 at All Souls, Langham Place, London. She was born 31st Dec 1862 at New York, USA; died 19th Dec 1939 at Sussex. They had the following children: | |||
| i | Josephine who was born 29th Dec 1892 at Bliss Cottage, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 6th Mar 1899 New York, USA; buried after 6th Mar 1899 New York, USA | ||
| 2 | ii | Elsie who was born 2nd Feb 1896 at The Naulahka, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 1976 | |
| iii | John who was born 17th Aug 1897 at The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex; died Sep 1915, killed in action on the Western Front | ||
| Generation No. 2 | |||
| 2. Elsie Bambridge [Kipling] was the daughter of Joseph Rudyard Kipling and Caroline Starr Kipling [Balestier]. She was born 2nd Feb 1896 at The Naulahka, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA; died 1976 | |||
| She married Captain George Bambridge on 1924. He was born c 1900; died 1943 | |||
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