Sir Robert Kemp, 4th Baronet (9 November 1699 – 1752)), of Ubbeston, Suffolk, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1730 to 1734. Kemp was baptized at Hoxne, Suffolk, the only son of

Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet (1667–1734), of Hoxne and Ubbeston, Suffolk, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1734. Biography Kemp was baptized at Ubbeston on 25 June 1667, the eldest so ...

of Ubbeston, Suffolk and his second wife Elizabeth Brand, daughter of John Brand of Edwardstone, Suffolk. He was admitted at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 3 July 1718 and at

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on 17 November 1721. Kemp was returned as a Tory

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for Orford at a by-election on 23 February 1730. He voted against the Government on all known occasions. He did not stand at the

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. Kemp succeeded his father in the

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on 18 December 1734. He died unmarried on. 15 February 1752 and was buried in the family vault at

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. He was succeeded by his brother John Kemp.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kemp. Sir Robert, 4th Baronet 1699 births 1752 deaths British MPs 1727–1734 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England