Rudyard Kipling

KIPLING, (Joseph) Rudyard. b. Bombay (Mumbai), India 30 Dec 1865; d. London, 18 Jan 1936. He was the son of English parents working in India (his unusual Christian name came from a lake in Staffordshire where they had met). He was educated in England (after some unhappy years in what he later called ‘the House of Desolation’ at Southsea), at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, North Devon (the source of Stalky and Co., 1899). He returned to India in 1882, working as a journalist at Lahore and later in Allahabad, and writing his first poems and short stories. He lived in England from 1889 onwards as a highly regarded writer, with periods in the USA (1893-96) and in South Africa. In...