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
Rudyard Kipling (ship) remained with the Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd. for the rest of her career. On 16 September 1939, the "Rudyard Kipling" left Fleetwood for a routine fishing trip to an area off the west coast of Ireland. The trawler, under the command of Skipper Charles Robinson and with a crew of 12 men, was about west of the Irish town of Donegal when came alongside and ordered them to pull over to the submarine and surrender. The German crew then took the "Rudyard Kipling"s food, including sugar, bread and fish, as well as the trawler's wireless radios, and transferred them