Rudyard Kipling
1865 – 1936 British Writer, poet
Author whose fiction drew directly on his lodge life.
- Religion
- Christian
- Affiliations
- Documented Freemason, initiated in Lahore in 1886.
Kipling was initiated into Lodge Hope and Perseverance No. 782 in Lahore in 1886. Masonic themes run through his poem The Mother Lodge and the story The Man Who Would Be King. His membership is documented in lodge records and his own writing.
In the timeline
- 1899 Rudyard Kipling publishes 'The White Man's Burden' central figure