John Lockwood Kipling
Born 6 July 1837
Died 26 January 1911
Active: 1860 - 1893
Country of birth and death: England
Architectural sculptor, designer, medallist
Born at Kirbymoorside, Pickering, North Yorkshire. Died at Clouds Mere, Wiltshire. Father of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), author. Brother-in-law to Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter (all three married to MacDonald sisters).
He was a student at Stoke Art School and joint designer (with R. Edgar) of the Facade of the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem 1865 [see Haggar (1953), p. 44]. Kipling was Professor of architectural sculpture at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art, Bombay 1865-75 and Principal, Mayo School of Art, Lahore 1875-93.
Wealth at death: £1,155 6s. 1d.
Probate date: 10 February 1911
Locations
Address The Gables Tisbury | View on map
This was his address at the time of his death, though he passed away at Clouds Mere, Wiltshire.
Address 101 Earl's Court Road London | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Stoke School of Art
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed in Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume III, 1907 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and 'author [sic] of several Bas-reliefs and Portrait-medallions, none of which have, as far as I know, been cast in bronze or reduced to the form of medals'. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 161.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Government Service India Education Department Punjab. Principal Government School of Art. Artist.'
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 12 and p. 44.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 34; Folio 158; Page 40; GSU roll: 6095144
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: John Lockwood Kipling
Probate Date: 10 Feb 1911
Death Date: 26 Jan 1911
Death Place: Wiltshire, England
Registry: London, England
People and the Potteries. A Dictionary of Local Biography Volume 1
1985
p. 135.
Who was Who
December 2007
‘KIPLING, John Lockwood’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U187856, accessed 15 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'John Lockwood Kipling', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1219251162, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
