Rudyard Kipling Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and the marble casket was covered by a Union Jack. Kipling was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in northwest London, and his ashes interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey, next to the graves of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. In 2010, the International Astronomical Union approved that a crater on the planet Mercury would be named after Kipling—one of ten newly discovered impact craters observed by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008–9. In 2012, an extinct species of crocodile, "Goniopholis kiplingi", was named in his honour, "in recognition for his enthusiasm
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