Charles Kemp (English cricketer) explained

Charles William Middleton Kemp (26 April 1856 – 15 May 1933) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1878.[1] [2] He was born in Forest Hill, London and died at Ightham, Kent.[3]

Kemp was educated at Harrow School, where he was captain of the cricket team in 1875, and at Oriel College, Oxford.[1] His first-class cricket was confined to the 1878 season, when he appeared in three Oxford University games, once playing for MCC against the Oxford team, and a single match for Kent. A right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm slow round-arm bowler, he had little success as batsman or bowler; in the 1878 University Match against Cambridge University, he was the not-out batsman when Oxford were dismissed in their second innings for just 32 to lose the match by 238 runs.[4]

Two of his brothers, Manley and Arthur, also played first-class cricket for Kent, and Manley, an all-round sportsman, played for and captained Oxford University too.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Charles Kemp . www.cricketarchive.com . 20 May 2016.
  2. Web site: Charles Kemp . www.espncricinfo.com.com . 20 May 2016.
  3. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 304–305. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 7 August 2022.)
  4. Web site: Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University . 1 July 1878 . www.cricketarchive.com . 20 May 2016.