In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev G B MacDonald of Wolverhampton, and they had three children.
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.
Agnes (1843–1906) married the president of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter.
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The parents of Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald first met at Rudyard and named their son after the village.