John lockwood kipling illustrations on prayer
John lockwood kipling illustrations on prayer and worship!
John Lockwood Kipling
English artist (1837–1911)
John Lockwood KiplingCIE (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911) was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India.
John lockwood kipling illustrations on prayer
He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.[1]
Life and career
Lockwood Kipling was born in Pickering, North Riding, the son of Reverend Joseph Kipling and Frances nee Lockwood,[2] and was educated at Woodhouse Grove School, a Methodist boarding school.
He met his wife Alice MacDonald while working in Burslem, Staffordshire, where his designs can still be seen on the façade of the Wedgwood Institute.[3]
Alice was the daughter of a Methodist minister, the Reverend George Browne Macdonald.
Kipling married during 1865 and relocated with his wife to India, where he had been appointed as a professor of architectural sculpture in the Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Bombay (now Mumbai), and later became its principal.[3]
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