Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Thomas Kemp

by John Hutchinson

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Thomas Kemp,

BISHOP,

Was nephew of the preceding. Like his uncle he was educated at Oxford, where he was proctor in 1437. He was consecrated by his uncle. Bishop of London, and continued in that See forty years. "Seeing," says Fuller, "the wars between Lancaster and York begun, continued, concluded, and the two roses tied together in one royal posie." He died in 1489.

[See "Fuller's Worthies," and Godwin's "Bishops of London."]