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Kipling, Rudyard : (1865-1936), son of Rev. Joseph Kipling, Principal of Mayo School of Art & Curator Central Museum, Lahore (1875-93). Rudyard became Asst. Editor of the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, & Pioneer of Allahabad (1882-9): authored Departmental Ditties 1886, Plain Tales from the Hills 1887, Soldiers Three, Wee Willie Winkle etc. 1888-9, The Light that Failed 1891, Barrack Room Ballads 1892, The Jungle Book part I in 1894 & part II in 1895, Kim 1901, etc. [Buckland] As ‘the Banjo Bard of the Empire’ he declared that a white man has every right to take the law into his hand when dealing with natives as an Indian is “no more than half-devil, half-child” [Bande Mataram, 8 May 1907]. This testament must surely have played a role in England being given her first Nobel Prize in literature 1907. In 1913, on the death of Poet Laureate Alfred Austin, British media counted him with Laurence Binyon, Thomas Hardy, & John Masefield as a likely successor to the post.