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
John Lockwood Kipling craftsmen as well as various sights and antiquities in these regions. Today several of these sketches are at the Victoria and Albert Museum whilst others were printed in a number of books. In 1875, Kipling was appointed the Principal of Mayo School of Arts, Lahore, British India (present day National College of Arts, Pakistan) and also became curator of the old original Lahore Museum which figured as the Wonder House or "Ajaib Ghar" in Kim, not to be confused with the present one. He retired back to England in 1893. Kipling illustrated many of Rudyard Kipling's books, and other works,