Alice Kipling 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. Two of Alice's sisters married artists: Georgiana was married to the painter Edward Burne-Jones, and her sister Agnes to Edward Poynter. Kipling's most famous relative was his first cousin, Stanley Baldwin, who was Conservative Prime Minister three times in the 1920s and '30s. He was the son of Alice's sister Louisa and her husband Alfred Baldwin. Harry Ricketts in his biography of Rudyard Kipling wrote of Alice that she: "...was lively, witty and
George Bambridge Baldwin, a Kipling family cousin and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The couple, who had no children, moved into Burgh House, Hampstead in 1933 where Rudyard Kipling was a regular visitor. Kipling’s last outing was a visit to Burgh House in January 1936 to comfort his son-in-law, who was in bed with bronchitis. The following day, the writer was rushed to hospital, where he died a few days later. In 1937, the Bambridges left Burgh House having purchased Wimpole Hall, near Cambridge, which they bequeathed to the National Trust. Bambridge died on 16 December 1943, aged 51,