Manley Colchester Kemp (7 September 1861 – 30 June 1951) was an English schoolmaster and sportsman, known particularly for a

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career that extended from 1880 to 1895.

Life

He was born at

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, one of the four sons of Charles Fitch Kemp (died 1907), a leading chartered accountant. Two of his brothers,

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and

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, also played first-class cricket for Kent, and Charles played for Oxford University too. The youngest son, Harold Fitch Kemp, played for the

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XI, as did all the brothers. He followed his father in becoming President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Kemp, Manley Colchester At Harrow School, Kemp was captain of the cricket team and also won the

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rackets championship in both 1879 and 1880. At

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, he matriculated in 1880 and was a scholar at

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. Kemp won

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at Oxford for rackets and for soccer as well as playing for the

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cricket team in the

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in each of his four seasons at the university. He then became a schoolmaster at

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for three years from 1885, before returning to Harrow as a master, where he remained involved with school sports, particularly cricket, up to the end of his life, though he retired from teaching in 1921.

Cricketer

Kemp had already appeared in first-class cricket before he went to Oxford, being picked for a "Gentlemen of the South" side in 1879 and for

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and a Gentlemen of Kent team in 1880. He was a right-handed batsman who usually played in the middle order and a wicketkeeper, though he did not always keep wicket when he played for Kent. As a batsman, Kemp's figures appear unimpressive to modern eyes, but he produced occasional innings of brilliance. As captain of the Oxford University team in both 1883 and 1884, he led the 1884 side to an unexpected victory over the full Australian touring team, making an unbeaten 63 out of an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 76. After leaving Oxford University, his first-class cricket was confined largely to the August school holidays, though he played almost a whole season in 1886; in that year, he made his highest score and only century, an innings of 175 for the Gentlemen of England cricket team against

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, made out of a total of 298 after the first six wickets had been lost for just 21 runs. He played in the

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matches from 1883 to 1885. He did not appear in first-class cricket after 1895.

Death

Kemp died at

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, Buckinghamshire, on 30 June 1951.

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