KEMMIS, HENRY (2 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle near Maryborough, Queen’s county 1753–1823). b. 19 Sep. 1776; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1795; M.P. for Tralee 1797–1800; assist. barrister for co. Kildare, afterwards for co. Dublin; chairman of quarter sessions of Kilmainham; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s Inns 1843. d. Kilmainham, Dublin 2 April 1857.
KEMMIS, Thomas (2 son of William Kemmis d. 1864). b. 9 April 1807; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister in Ireland 1834; crown solicitor for Leinster circuit, Dec. 1852 to Sep. 1869; solicitor to the crown and treasury, Ireland, Sep. 1869 to death, this office had been held in his family uninterruptedly since 1783. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 18 Dec. 1868.
KEMMIS, William (3 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle 1753–1823). b. 23 Oct. 1777; crown solicitor for Dublin 1801–52; for the Leinster circuit 1801–52; solicitor to the Treasury 1801–59; conducted the state prosecutions 1798–1848, was present and assisted at all the great state trials of his time. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 20 July 1864.
KEMP, Edward Curtis. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 12th wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Lyndhurst 1825–8; R. of Whissonsett and Horningtoft 1829–65; chaplain to Dukes of Cambridge 1841 to death; P.C. of St. George, Yarmouth 1865 to death; author of A small dictionary for the use of the poor, an attempt to explain difficult words in the Bible and Prayer book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; An introduction to the newly discovered proofs of the divine authority of the New Testament 1859; Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus qui inscribitur “Divine Songs” Latine redditorum 1848. d. 51 King st. Yarmouth 10 June 1881 aged 86.
KEMP, Francis Baring (son of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. Lewes, founder of Kemp-town, Brighton). b. 1812; ed. at Eton; writer H.E.I.C.S. 1830; served in the revenue and judicial departments in various districts of Bengal; collector Tirhoot 1851; civil and sessions judge Backergunge and Jessore 1855–62; judge of the high court of judicature, Calcutta 1862, retired 1878. d. 14 Denmark ter. Brighton 20 Jany. 1892.
KEMP, George Rees. b. 1780; entered Bombay army 1796; colonel 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 1860; general 20 June 1854. d. Spring lodge, East Hoathly, Sussex 16 Sep. 1861.
KEMP, Grover (eld. son of John Kemp). b. Bermondsey, London 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Hitchin and Epping; apprentice to John Glaisyer, chemist and druggist, Brighton, became a partner in the firm, retired 1863; a minister among the Friends 1823; continually visited the meetings in Great Britain and Ireland during 50 years; preached to the free black population in the West Indies 1857–58; author of A tract for the season. d. Brighton 21 Dec. 1869. Biog. Cat. of Lives of Friends (1888) 393–8.
KEMP, Henry Latimer. b. Birmingham; reporter on Manchester Guardian; reporter and sub-editor Birmingham Daily Press till its discontinuance 1859; reporter on Derby Mercury 1859, sub-editor 1860, then responsible editor to his death; edited The Derbyshire red book, an annual 1862; author of A history of the Derby charities 1861. d. Derby 30 April 1869. The Newspaper Press, iii 123 (1869).
KEMP, Henry William. b. St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet 23 June 1820; ed. at Beverley gram. sch. and at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; C. of St. Helen’s 1843; C. of St. John’s, Hull 1846; V. of St. John’s, Hull 1847–79, where he had one of the largest congregations in the north of England; V. of Millington with Givendale near York 1879–80; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1868 to death; president of Hull literary and philosophical soc.; preb. of York 1886 to death; author of Sermons 1854. d. The Charterhouse, Hull 7 March 1888. Church Portrait Journal, ii 21–4 (1881), portrait; Biograph, vi 297 (1881).
KEMP, Isaac. Proprietor of Phœnix music hall, Dover before 1868 to death. d. 29 Aug. 1889. bur. Copt hill cemet. 2 Sep. The Era 7 Sep. 1889 p. 15.