Sir John Arrow Kempe, KCB (5 January 1846 – 4 April 1928) was a British civil servant.

Biography

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, pages=17 A brother was Sir Alfred Kempe; another was

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. Educated at St Paul's School and

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, Kempe joined the

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in 1867. He was assistant private secretary to

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during his short premiership in 1868 and private secretary to

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from 1874 until 1880. He later served as private secretary to Sir Ralph Lingen and

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. He was principal clerk in the Treasury from 1888 to 1894, deputy chairman of the Board of Customs from 1894 to 1904, then briefly Assistant Comptroller, and finally Comptroller and Auditor-General from 1904 until his retirement in 1911.

Family

A daughter was Dorothy Gardiner.

References

1846 births 1928 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at St Paul's School, London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Civil servants in HM Treasury Civil servants in the Board of Customs Private secretaries in the British Civil Service