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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kiplingâs parents were:
- John Lockwood Kipling: An artist and scholar who served as the curator of the Lahore Museum. He had a significant influence on his son's work and is depicted in the first chapter of Rudyardâs novel Kim.1
- Alice Macdonald: She came from a notable family; two of her sisters married the prominent 19th-century painters Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Sir Edward Poynter, while a third sister married Alfred Baldwin and became the mother of the future prime minister Stanley Baldwin.1