Rudyard Kipling the newly founded Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay. John Lockwood and Alice had met in 1863 and courted at Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire, England. They married and moved to India in 1865. 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
Alice Kipling Alice Kipling Alice Caroline Kipling (4 April 1837 – 22 November 1910) was one of the MacDonald sisters, four Scottish women of the Victorian era, notable for their contribution to the arts and their marriages to well-known men. A writer and poet, she was the mother of the author Rudyard Kipling. Alice Kipling was born as Alice Caroline MacDonald in Sheffield, England in 1837, the first of the four daughters of Reverend George Browne MacDonald (1805–1868), a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Hannah Jones (1809–1875). In her youth Alice MacDonald wrote sonnets. She was described as: "...slender, pale complexion, dark brown