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Elsie Bambridge (née Kipling; 2 February 1896 – 24 May 1976) was the second daughter of British writer Rudyard Kipling. She was the only one of the Kiplings' three children to survive beyond early adulthood.
Jun 1, 1976 · Elsie Kipling Bambridge, only daughter of Rudyard Kipling and widow of Capt. George St. Clair Bambridge, an Irish Guards officer in World War who was later an attache at British embassies in...
Sep 1, 2017 · Elsie Bambridge was the only surviving child of Rudyard Kipling. She was able to use the substantial royalties from his books to refurbish the house. Mrs Bambridge bequeathed the house to the National Trust on her death aged 80 in 1976.
Jun 3, 2015 · Lady Elsie Bambridge was the daughter of English writer Rudyard Kipling and the wife of Captain George Bambridge. In 1938, Elsie and her husband bought Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire's largest stately home, parts of which were requisitioned by the British Army in 1943, in order to build a general hospital to deal with casualties of ...
Mrs Elsie Bambridge, Kipling’s daughter. Obituary. Some of Kipling’s works contain words or express views relating to race, gender or other matters which today are generally considered unacceptable. We are alerting readers to their presence. Design by John Radcliffe and Michael Wilcox, Wordpress implementation by Wilcox Associates.
Philanthropist. Born the second child of Rudyard Kipling and his American wife Caroline Starr Balestier. Her elder sister, Josie, died of pneumonia in 1899 while her younger brother, John, was killed in action in 1915, leaving her as the only surviving child, a role she apparently found difficult to cope with...
Kipling’s daughter Elsie Bambridge claimed that “I keep six honest serving-men” referred to herself as a little girl, when she was known in the family as “Elsie Why” [ Carrington, p. 512]. ORG suggested as its origin a medieval Latin epigram in the Register of Daniel Rough, Clerk of Romney (Kent) in the 14th century:
