- GB-2014-WSA-10378
- Person
- 1782-1846
KEMP, THOMAS READ, younger but only surviving son of Thomas Kemp MP, Lewes, Sussex, wool-stapler, and Anne, dau. of Henry Read, Brookland, Kent; b. 1782; adm. 31 Mar 1796 (Clapham); in school list 1797; left Christmas 1797 (?); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 5 Nov 1800; BA 1805; MA 1810; adm. Middle Temple 16 May 1804; MP Lewes 10 May 1811 – Mar 1816, Arundel 21 Feb 1823-6, Lewes 1826 – Apr 1837; the developer of the Kemp Town suburb of Brighton; m. 1st, 12 Jul 1806 Frances, fourth dau. of Sir Francis Baring, Bart. MP; m. 2nd, 26 Nov 1832 Frances Margaretta, widow of Vigors Harvey, Killaine Castle, co. Wexford, and dau. of Charles William John Shakerley (qv); d. at Paris 20 Dec 1846. DNB.