George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale

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George Kemp

George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale,

CB (9 June 1866 – 24 March 1945) was a British politician, soldier
, businessman and cricketer.

Education and business career

Kemp was born at Beechwood, Rochdale, Lancashire, and educated at Shrewsbury and Mill Hill Schools.[1] Matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1883, aged 16, Kemp transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1884, where he graduated B.A. in the Classical Tripos in 1888.[2] In business, Kemp went into the woollen industry eventually becoming Chairman of Kelsall & Kemp, flannel manufacturers.

Cricket

From 1885 to 1892, Kemp played first-class cricket for

lawn tennis 'Blue'.[5]

Politics

In 1895, he was elected

Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, until January 1900, when he resigned to serve in the Second Boer War.[6]

In 1904, along with

Irish Home Rule had not diminished and he opposed the Liberal Government's Irish Home Rule bill. As he still felt out of step with the Unionist's advocacy of Tariff Reform, he decided to retire from the House of Commons.[7] He declared that he "loathed politics".[2]

A year later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rochdale, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Military career

Kemp had been a

mentioned in despatches. He left again for South Africa in May 1902, as temporary lieutenant-colonel in command of the 32nd Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry, including a machine-gun section which he had helped raise.[11]

The battalion arrived shortly after the war ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902, and never saw any fighting. Kemp obtained leave to return home before his regiment,[12] and left Cape Town on the SS Kildonan Castle in late September 1902, arriving at Southampton the following month.[13]

He relinquished his commission with the Imperial Yeomanry and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army on 12 October 1902.[14]

Called to

Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.[15]

Family

Kemp married, on 5 August 1896, Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton (1871–1966), third daughter of Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere. Lady Beatrice Kemp joined her husband in South Africa in early 1900.[16]

They had three children. Lord Rochdale died at Lingholm near Keswick, Cumberland[1] in 1945, aged 88, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John.

Arms

Coat of arms of George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale
Coronet
A Coronet of a Viscount
Crest
A cubit arm erect vested Argent cuffed Azure the hand Proper grasping a chaplet Vert encircling a rose as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Argent a chevron engrailed Gules between two estoiles in chief Azure and a rose of the second in base barbed and seeded Proper.
Supporters
On either side a ram Or charged on the shoulder with a rose Gules slipped and leaved Proper.
Motto
Lucem Spero (I Hope For Light)[17]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-902171-17-9
    .Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  2. ^ a b "Kemp, George (KM884G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  4. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  5. ^ Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. pp. 18, 46.
  6. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36048. London. 25 January 1900. p. 9.
  7. ^ A Liberal Chronicle 1908-1910 by Jack Pease
  8. ^ "No. 27160". The London Gazette. 2 February 1900. p. 692.
  9. ^ "No. 27163". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 1900. p. 911.
  10. ^ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36063. London. 12 February 1900. p. 10.
  11. ^ "The War - The reinforcements". The Times. No. 36763. London. 9 May 1902. p. 10.
  12. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36877. London. 19 September 1902. p. 7.
  13. ^ "The Army in South Africa - Return of Troops". The Times. No. 36897. London. 13 October 1902. p. 8.
  14. ^ "No. 27491". The London Gazette. 4 November 1902. p. 7013.
  15. ISBN 1-84734-739-8
  16. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36054. London. 1 February 1900. p. 9.
  17. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 4151.
  • Who was Who, OUP 2007

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