
Kemp Baronets
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The Kemp Baronetcy, of Gissing in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 14 March 1642 for Robert Kemp. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
for Norfolk
and Dunwich
. The third Baronet was Member of Parliament for Dunwich and Suffolk
. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Orford
. The title became extinct on the death of the twelfth Baronet in 1936.
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for Norfolk
Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
Norfolk was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament...
and Dunwich
Dunwich (UK Parliament constituency)
Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1298 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act....
. The third Baronet was Member of Parliament for Dunwich and Suffolk
Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)
Suffolk was a county constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1290 until 1832, when it was split into two divisions.-Boundaries and franchise:...
. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Orford
Orford (UK Parliament constituency)
Orford was a constituency of the House of Commons. Consisting of the town of Orford in Suffolk, it elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote version of the first past the post system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1832.-History:...
. The title became extinct on the death of the twelfth Baronet in 1936.
Kemp Baronets, of Gissing (1642)
- Sir Robert Kemp, 1st Baronet (d. 1647)
- Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet (1627-1710)
- Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet (1667-1734)
- Sir Robert Kemp, 4th Baronet (1699-1752)
- Sir John Kemp, 5th Baronet (1700-1761)
- Sir John Kemp, 6th Baronet (1754-1771)
- Sir Benjamin Kemp, 7th Baronet (1708-1777)
- Sir William Kemp, 8th Baronet (1717-1799)
- Sir William Robert Kemp, 9th Baronet (1744-1804)
- Sir William Robert Kemp, 10th Baronet (1791-1874)
- Sir Thomas John Kemp, 11th Baronet (1793-1874)
- Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet (1853-1936)

