British poet

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Bombay, India
    was born to the family of local art school professor John Lockwood and Alice.
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  • School

    At the age of 12, his parents set him up at a private Devon school so he could then enter the prestigious military academy.

  • College

    was sent to study at the United Service College at Westward Ho in Devon

  • Beginning his writing career

    He abandoned his dream to study at Oxford and took up a job in Lahore as an assistant editor in a local newspaper the Civil & Military Gazette. He wrote over thirty stories for The Gazette beginning from the year 1886.

  • First being published

    First being published
    his first prose collection Plain Tales from the Hills was published in Calcutta

  • To London

    He decided to move on to London to make his entry in the literary world there. He left India on 8 March 1889.

  • Naulahka

    Naulahka
    [In London, he meets the young American publisher Walcott Beilstir, they are working together on the story "Naulahka."](http://www.timetoast.com

  • First novel

    First novel
    He wrote his first novel, The Light That Failed in 1891, and also met an American author and publishing agent.

  • Getting married

    Getting married
    In 1892, Balestir died of Tifa, and shortly thereafter, he married Walcott`s sister Caroline.

  • The Book of the Jungle

    The Book of the Jungle
    At this time, the writer again begins to write for children; in the years 1894-1895 came out the famous "The Book of the Jungle"

  • Poems

    Recessional and The White Man’s Burden his two poems were published in 1897 and 1899 respectively and gave rise to huge controversies that will last for long.

  • Just So Stories for Little Children

    Just So Stories for Little Children
    He published another story Just So Stories for Little Children which would become one of his most acclaimed works following the success of Kim.

  • the Noble Prize for Literature

    1907 brought along with it the greatest honor of the time, the Noble Prize for Literature. At the award function in Stockholm on 10 December 1907, he became the first English language recipient of this great honor.

  • IF

    IF
    "Reward and Fairies" was published. It contained one of the most favorite poems of all times in English literature called “If…” This marvellous poem inciting readers for self-command and phlegm became poet’s one of the most famous poetry creation of all the times.

  • The death of the son. "My Boy Jack" poem

    The death of the son. "My Boy Jack" poem
    Tragedy once again hit the family when his only son John died in 1915 at the ‘battle of Loos’. The untimely death of his son made the poet blame himself for his role in getting John in the Army at an early age of 17. The incident made him write a poem “My Boy Jack” in which he deeply mourns for his son cursing and blaming himself.

  • St Andrews University in Scotland

    He was elected the Lord Rector of St Andrews University in Scotland and remained on the position till 1925.

  • Death

    Death
    He died of a hemorrhage on 18 January 1936 and was cremated at Golden Green Crematorium. You can find his name in the Poet's Corner in Westminster.