Adela Florence Cory, the future LH
, was born at Stoke House, Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire (now a part of Bristol), while her family was on leave from her father
's post in India.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Family and Intimate relationships
Victoria Cross
Cross's father, Arthur Cory
, was also English-born, and the child of a barrister. He was a military officer in India, first as a major in the Bengal Staff Corps
, and then a colonel...
Family and Intimate relationships
Laurence Hope
LH
's father, Arthur Cory
, was (like his wife) the English-born child of a barrister. He settled in India and became a military officer, first with the Bengal Staff Corps
as a major, and...
Occupation
Rudyard Kipling
He worked for five years in Lahore (then in India, now in Pakistan) as assistant editor at the Civil and Military Gazette (to which both his parents contributed and whose editor was Arthur Cory
