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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.
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
In 1838 Richard Smith Appleyard sold Bateman's and its remaining land for £1,400 to the Rev. Joseph Gould, who was rector of Burwash from 1840 until his death in 1866. His executors sold the estate for £5,300 to Thomas Miller Whitehead of Duke Street, London who, in 1886, sold to Albert Jarvis who, in 1892, sold to John Alexander Macmeikan, of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire who, in 1897, sold to Alexander Carron Scrimgeour, of Maida Vale. Rudyard Kipling bought Bateman's and its land, Park House watermill and part of Dudwell Farm from Alexander Carron Scrimgeour for £9,300 on 28 July 1902.
ref: East Sussex Record Office - AMS5982/1
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
"Have you news of my boy Jack?"
Not this tide.
"When d'you think that he'll come back?"
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
"Has any one else had word of him?"
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
"Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?"
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind---
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide.
John Kipling | m: 24th Nov 1801 Lythe, Yorkshire | Ann Hansell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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b: 17th Mar 1805 Yorkshire ch: 17th Mar 1805 Lythe | b: 27th May 1807 Yorkshire ch: 5th Jul 1807 Lythe | b: 2nd Aug 1809 Yorkshire ch: 2nd Aug 1809 Lythe d: 4th Aug 1809 | b: 11th Apr 1811 Yorkshire ch: 11th Apr 1811 Lythe | b: 1814 Yorkshire ch: 3rd Jan 1814 Lythe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Kipling Wesleyan Minister | m: 6th Sep 1836 Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire | Frances Lockwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Professor John Lockwood | Jane Frances | Joseph | Ann Elizabeth | Hannah | Ruth Mary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: Jul to Sep 1837 Pickering, Yorkshire d: 26th Jan 1911 | b: Jan to Mar 1839 Horncastle, Lincolnshire | b: Jan to Mar 1840 Horncastle, Lincolnshire | b: Apr to Jun 1841 Horncastle, Lincolnshire | b: Jan to Mar 1842 Yorkshire | b: Jul to Sep 1846 Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Professor John Lockwood Kipling Architectural Sculptor | m: 18th Mar 1865 St. Mary Abbotts, London | Alice Macdonald | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: Jul to Sep 1837 Pickering, Yorkshire d: 26th Jan 1911 | b: 4th Apr 1837 Sheffield, Yorkshire d: 23rd Nov 1910 Tisbury, Wiltshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Rudyard | Alice Beatrice (Trix) | John | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 30th Dec 1865 Bombay, India d: 18th Jan 1936 Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London bur: After 18th Jan 1936 Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 11th Jun 1868 London ch: 23rd Sep 1868 Manchester Cathedral, Manchester d: 1948 | b: 1870 London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joseph Rudyard Kipling | m: 18th Jan 1892 All Souls, Langham Place, London | Caroline Balestier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 30th Dec 1865 Bombay, India d: 18th Jan 1936 Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London bur: After 18th Jan 1936 Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 31st Dec 1862 New York, USA d: 19th Dec 1939 Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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b: 29th Dec 1892 Bliss Cottage, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA d: 6th Mar 1899 New York, USA bur: After 6th Mar 1899 Fresh Pond, Long Island, New York, USA | b: 2nd Feb 1896 The Naulahka, Brattleboro, Vermont, New York, USA d: 1976 | b: 17th Aug 1897 The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex d: Sep 1915 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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