Arthur Kemp (Kent cricketer)

Arthur Fitch Kemp (1 August 1863 – 14 February 1940) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in the mid-1880s for Kent, the Marylebone Cricket Club and other amateur teams.[1] He was born at Forest Hill, London and died at his home at Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey.[2]

Kemp was educated at Harrow School where he was captain of the cricket team in 1881. He appeared in one of the four first-class matches played by the Orleans Club at Twickenham, the game against Cambridge University in 1883; he then played three times for Kent in 1884 and once for MCC against Kent in 1885.[1] Kemp also won the public schools rackets championship in 1881.[3]

Two of his brothers, Charles and Manley, also played first-class cricket for Kent, and they both played for Oxford University too.

  1. ^ a b "Arthur Kemp". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  2. ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 303–304. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 7 August 2022.)
  3. ^ "Obituary". The Times. No. 48544. London. 20 February 1940. p. 4.