KIPLING CREMATED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 5

KIPLING CREMATED

Clergyman Reads From the

Recessional

ONLY FOUR PRESENT

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received January 21, 5.30 p.m.)

London, January 20.

Mr. Budyard Kipling’s body was cremated at Golder’s Green last evening. Tbe coffin was covered with a Union Jack, and the clergyman reed the verse from tho Ueeessional, beginning, “The tumult and the shouting dies.” There were no flowers, and only four persons present. Among the pallbearers on Thursday will be the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Sir Janies Barrie. Admiral Sir Roger Keys, Field-Marshal Sir A. A. Montgomery-Massingbred, and Sir Fabian Ware .

Newspapers prophesy that Mr. Kipling’s estate will exceed £750,000 —a record for an author.

Other literary fortunes are Sir Hall Caine £250,000, Sir W. S. Gilbert £lll,OOO, Stanley Weyman £lOO,OOO, Charles Dickens £93,000, Thomas Hardy, £91,000, and John Galsworthy £BB,OOO. Mr. Kipling’s wealth is attributed to the half a century’s steady sale of his works, none of which, was a cheap edition.

A British official wireless message from Rugby says the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey have agreed that Mr. Kipling should be buried in the Poets’ Corner at the Abbey.. The interment will take place on Thursday morning. In the present century the honour of burial in the Poets’ Corner has been accorded only to Henry Irving and Thomas Hardy. 1