Family and Education
b. 1517, 1st s. of Sir William Kempe of Wye by Eleanor, da. and h. of Robert Browne. m. (1) bef. June 1543, Katherine (or Cicely), da. of Sir Thomas Cheyne, 5da.; (a) by 1560, Amy (or Anne), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Moyle of Eastwell, 7s.; (3) aft. or in 1571, Joan, da. of Richard Fermor, wid. of Robert Wilford, merchant taylor of London, and of Sir John Mordaunt, 2nd Lord Mordaunt, s.p. suc. fa. 1539. Kntd. 1547.E150/493/2; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 62-3; LP Hen. VIII, xviii(1), pp. 380-1; xv. 403; CPR, 1548-9, pp. 291-2; Hasted. Kent, ii. 334 et passim; CP, ix. 196; F. H. Kemp, Gen. Hist. Kemp and Kempe Fams. ped. opp. p. 14.
Offices Held
Household official, prob. by 1537; j.p. Kent from c. 1554, rem. by 1582, sheriff 1555 – 56, 1564–5.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Wye, Kent.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
KEMPE, Sir Thomas (1517-91)
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