Alice Kipling

Alice Caroline Kipling (4 April 1837 – 22 November 1910) was one of the MacDonald sisters, Englishwomen of the Victorian era, four of whom were notable for their contribution to the arts and their marriages to well-known men.

She was described as: "...slender, pale complexion, dark brown hair and grey eyes, with black lashes and delicately pencilled eyebrows.

Harry Ricketts in his biography of Rudyard Kipling wrote of Alice that she: "...was lively, witty and talented; in a Jane Austen novel she would have been called accomplished.

Her poems showed another side, revealing a deep strain of melancholy..."[9] In January 1865, John Lockwood Kipling was made Architectural Sculptor and Professor of Modelling at the School of Art and Industry in Bombay.

[14] She died at age 73 in November 1910, three days after suffering a heart attack[15] and is buried beside her husband in the churchyard of St John the Baptist in Tisbury in Wiltshire, England.

John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling in India in 1870
Alice Kipling is buried beside her husband in the churchyard of St John the Baptist church, Tisbury, Wiltshire