Thomas Read Kemp
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Thomas Read Kemp (December 23, 1782 – December 20, 1844) was an English property developer and politician.
Leben
He was the son of Sussex landowner and Member of Parliament Thomas Kemp, and his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Read of Brookland. He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1801. He graduated B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810. He entered the Middle Temple in 1804.[1]
He conceived and developed the Regency-style Kemp Town estate in Brighton on the south coast of England. He was Member of Parliament for Lewes from 1811–16 and 1826–37 and for Arundel 1823–26. He fled Britain in 1837 to escape his creditors and died in Paris in 1844. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. A tablet was erected to his memory at St Nicholas's Church next to his wife's.
Family
Kemp married Frances Baring, daughter of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet and Harriet Herring in 1806. They had four sons and six daughters. She died during childbirth in 1825 and was buried at St. Nicholas's Church.
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Rose Collis (2010) The New Encyclopedia of Brighton Brighton and Hove City Council
Notes
- ^ "Kemp, Thomas Read (KM800TR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.