Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1627 – 26 September 1710), of Gissing Hall, Norfolk and Ubbeston, Suffolk, was an English politician who sat in the

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between 1675 and 1685. Kemp was born at Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, the son of Sir Robert Kemp of

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, and his wife, Jane Browne, daughter of

Sir Matthew Browne Sir Matthew Browne (1563 – 1 August 1603) of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, MP, was the only son of Sir Thomas Browne and Mabel Fitzwilliam. He was involved in legal and financial transactions concerning the Globe Theatre in 1601.. He was kille ...

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. He succeeded to the

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on the death of his father on 20 August 1647. He married firstly, Mary Kerridge, daughter of Thomas Kerridge, of Shelley Hall, Suffolk and his wife Susan, at St Bartholemew the Less, London, on 15 July 1650. She died without issue in June 1655 and he married secondly on 20 November 1657, Mary Sone, daughter of John Sone of Ubberston, Suffolk.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 3''
/ref> In 1675, Kemp was elected

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for

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in a by-election to the

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. He was elected MP for

Dunwich Dunwich is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around north-east of London, south of Southwold and north of Leiston, on the North Sea coast. In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was t ...

in the second election of 1679 and was re-elected in 1681. Kemp's wife died at Ubberston on 29 July 1705, and was buried on 2 August at Gissing. Kemp died on 26 June 1710 at the age of 83, and was buried at

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. His memorial is by Edward Stanton.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.367 He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son

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His daughter Mary married

Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (14 September 1657 – 9 April 1738), of Grundisburgh, Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great ...

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