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.
Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the earliest and most famous curators of the museum.
While in India, he stayed, part of the time, with John Lockwood Kipling, and met his son Rudyard Kipling.
The parents of Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald first met at Rudyard and named their son after the village.
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