Publications
Thomas Read Kemp, M.P., by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (p.253) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]
Men of Sussex: Half-Forgotten Worthies. 1 - Thomas Read Kemp, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 1, article, p.55) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]
The Founder of Kemp Town, Brighton, by Antony Dale, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 1, article, pp.47-53) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]
A Pelican in Sussex, by Philip Pattenden, published September 1982 in History Today (vol 32, issue 9, article) View Online
Abstract:Explores the work of Charles Eamer Kempe at Old Place, Sussex.
Old place is the epitome of Elizabethan elegance which Charles Eamer Kempe created around himself at Lindfield, near Haywards Heath, in Sussex in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. An extravaganza of the architectural style of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, extensive and grandiose, richly embellished within and without by carving and pargeting, it was bejewelled with copious windows in stained or painted glass, though much of this glass was removed in the nineteen-twenties. Kempe became very wealthy and celebrated in his success as an artist and designer, especially in glasswork. At Old Place his purpose was to create a gentleman's country residence in the late Tudor/Jacobean style, and any visitor there even now, when, since the War, the house has been divided into several residences, cannot but agree that he realised that ideal.
Old place is the epitome of Elizabethan elegance which Charles Eamer Kempe created around himself at Lindfield, near Haywards Heath, in Sussex in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. An extravaganza of the architectural style of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, extensive and grandiose, richly embellished within and without by carving and pargeting, it was bejewelled with copious windows in stained or painted glass, though much of this glass was removed in the nineteen-twenties. Kempe became very wealthy and celebrated in his success as an artist and designer, especially in glasswork. At Old Place his purpose was to create a gentleman's country residence in the late Tudor/Jacobean style, and any visitor there even now, when, since the War, the house has been divided into several residences, cannot but agree that he realised that ideal.
The Kemp Family in Lewes and Brighton, by Antony Dale, published September 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 3, article, pp.100-107) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The life and ancestry of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. (1782-1844) and his descendants. He married Frances Baring and lived at Herstmonceux Place, then The Temple, Montpelier Road, Brighton, and then Dale Park, Madehurst. They had 10 children. After the death of Frances in childbirth he married, in 1832, Frances Margaretta Shakely and they had one son. Article covers the years 1733 - 1924.
Portraits of T. R. Kemp, by Antony Dale, published December 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 4, article, p.155) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Charles Eamer Kempe, by Antony Dale, published March 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 5, article, p.197) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Charles Eamer Kempe was born at Ovingdean on the 29th June 1837, educated at Rugby and Pembroke College, Oxford. After an apprenticeship with Clayton & Ball, he began to practise on his own in 1866 and quickly became one of the most successful and best-known designers of stained glass in England. He lived at Old Place, Lindfield and died on 29th April 1907, unmarried,
The Kemp Family in Lewes and Brighton, by Elizabeth de Bourbel, published March 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 5, article, p.234) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Seeking the Origins of Edmund Kemp of Trotton (c.1700 - 1759): Part One - Post 1725 Clues and Heyshott, by Vincent Tickner, published March 1992 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 1, article, pp.23-28) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The search for Edmund Kemp and covers the years 1604 - 1770 in various parishes of Sussex.
Seeking the Origins of Edmund Kemp of Trotton (c.1700 - 1759): Part Two - Kemp and Piper Families in the Area, by Vincent Tickner, published June 1992 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 2, article, pp.57-64) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Seeking the Origins of Edmund Kemp of Trotton (c.1700 - 1759): Part Three - The Kemp Family and Weavers in Chichester, by Vincent Tickner, published September 1992 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 3, article, pp.89-93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Thomas Read Kemp and the shaping of Regency Brighton, c.1818-1845, by Sue Berry, published 2009 in The Georgian Group Journal (vol. XVII, article, pp.125-140) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502509]
Ray Kemp - One of the Last Ox Boys, by Vida Herbison, published 2010 (booklet no. 8, East Dean & Friston Local History Group) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509185] & East Dean & Friston Local History Group
An East Dean man remembers working with oxen.
Obituary: Dora Alida Kemp, October 1966 - October 2014, by Luke Barber and John Manley, published April 2015 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 135, obituary, p.12, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507923] & S.A.S. library View Online