Career
She was the only one of the Kipling"s three children to survive beyond adolescence. On 22 October 1924, Elsie Kipling married George Bambridge and in 1938 they bought Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire"s largest stately home. On her death, in 1976, she bequeathed the property and its contents to the National Trust.
The Trust later donated her father"s manuscripts to the University of Sussex in Brighton, to ensure better public access to them.
She is buried in the graveyard of Street Andrew"s church on the estate.