Campaign chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Walnut, elm, cedar, brass, iron, paint
Measurements
47 x 102 x 49 cm
Place of origin
England
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 209080
Summary
A brass and iron-bound walnut chest, English, mid-19th century. Painted in black to top of lid 'Rudyard Kipling', and with brass straps at the edges and corners, and flush brass-handles. With later iron strapping to edges and corners. -- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, was Elsie Bambridge's father (1896 - 1976). In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He travelled extensively in India, South Africa and the United States.
Provenance
The property of Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) and brought to Wimpole by his daughter Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976) who purchased Wimpole with her husband George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) in 1928. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.