John Lockwood Kipling

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John Lockwood Kipling
John Lockwood Kipling és Rudyard Kipling.jpg
John Lockwood Kipling and Rudyard Kipling, c.1890.
Born John Lockwood Kipling
(1837-07-06)6 July 1837
Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
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Tisbury, Wiltshire, England
Occupation Art teacher, illustrator, museum curator
Wood Carver at Shimla, pencil and ink drawing by John Lockwood Kipling, 1870

John Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E.[1] (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911), was an English art teacher, illustrator, and museum curator, who spent most of his career in British India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.

Biography

Lockwood Kipling was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire, to Reverend Joseph Kipling and Frances 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 in 1865 and moved 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]

Their son was born soon after, in December 1865, and was christened Rudyard after Rudyard, Staffordshire, the place where his parents had first met;[3] their daughter Alice Kipling was born in 1868. In 1870-1872 Kipling was commissioned by the government to tour the Punjab, North-West Frontier and Kashmir and make a series of sketches of Indian craftsmen as well as various sights and antiquities in these regions[citation needed]; today several of these sketches are at the Victoria and Albert Museum whilst others were printed in a number of books.[3]

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,[4] not to be confused with the present one built later on after he had retired back to England in 1893.[5]

Kipling illustrated many of Rudyard Kipling's books, and other works, including Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. He also worked on the decorations for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and friezes on the Crawford Market in Bombay. John Kipling designed the uniforms and decorations for the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi in 1877, organized by the Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton, at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.

During his tenure as the Principal of the Mayo School of Art, Lahore he patronised indigenous artisans and through training and apprenticeship transformed them into craftsmen and designers. One of his protégés was Bhai Ram Sing, who assisted him in his imperial commission for decorating the Durbar Room at Osborne House. Kipling also remained editor of the Journal of Indian Art and Industry, which carried drawings made by the students of the Mayo School.

He died in 1911, and is buried in the parish of Tisbury, Wiltshire.[6]

Main published works

  • Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the People, Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1891.
  • Inezilla: a romance in two chapters, by J.L.K. Reprinted from The Chameleon, Allahabad, [1873], pp. [105]-118, [61]-89. 1/5.
  • Across the Border: Or, Pathân and Biloch, by Edward Emmerson Oliver, Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling. Published by Chapman and Hall, 1890.
  • Tales of the Punjab Told by the People, by Flora Annie Webster Steel, Richard Carnac Temple, John Lockwood Kipling. Published by Macmillan and co., 1894.The Jungle book

  • Illustration for a chapter capital in his son's Jungle Book, 1895

  • Bas-relief from a series illustrating Kim

  • Mayo College, Ajmer, India - Coat of Arms.JPG

    Mayo College, Ajmer, India Coat of Arms designed by (John) Lockwood Kipling.

  • Cryptic dedication page with Arabic inscriptions

References

  1. ↑ John Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. New York Times, 24 January 1892.
  2. ↑ John Lockwood Kipling thepeerage.com.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Drawing by John Lockwood Kipling, and Biography Victoria & Albert Museum.
  4. ↑ Tarin, O, in 'The Kipling Journal', June 2008, pp 10-21
  5. ↑ For details see Peter Hopkirk, Quest for Kim:In Search of Kipling's Great Game London: J Murray, 1996
  6. ↑ Papers of John Lockwood Kipling University of Sussex.

Further reading

  • The Pater: John Lockwood Kipling His Life and Times 1837-1911, by Arthur R Ankers, ISBN 1-871044-00-6
  • The Kipling Papers: A List of Papers of John Lockwood Kipling 1837-1911, Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, and of Some Papers of Josephine, Elsie and John Kipling from Wimpole Hall, Cambridge. by University of Sussex Library. Manuscripts Section, Rudyard Kipling. Published by University of Sussex Library, 1980. ISBN 0-85087-014-3.
  • Official Chronicle of the Mayo School of Art: The formative years under Lockwood Kipling. (1875 to 1893), Researched and Introduced by Nadeem Omar Tarar. Samina Choonara (editor). National College of Arts, Lahore, 2003, ISBN 969-8623-00-0

External links

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