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1891-1933
Dancer, prostitute and murder victim.She was murdered in her basement flat in the second of the Brighton trunk murders of 1933.
• 44 Park Crescent
• 47 Kemp Street
1923-2012
Film-maker.Prolific experimental film-maker, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, who made his home in Brighton in the 1950s, where he worked as a landscape gardener for the parks department and later as a postman. He won a scholarship to Oxford but was drafted for military service in 1942 and studied commercial art after the war. He started working with 8mm film in 1960 and favoured the narrow gauge even after moving into 16mm in 1968. He was a founder of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative in 1966. He made around 70 films—characterised by fast cutting, superimpositions, references to popular culture and war—as well as paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, assemblages and poems. Wider recognition came late in his life with an installation at Tate Modern in London, exhibitions in New York and Paris, and release of a DVD collection of his work by the BFI.
1745-1811
KEMP, Nathaniel
1759-1843
KEMP, Thomas Read
1782-1844
Owner of a moiety (half share) of the manor of Brighton, inherited from his uncle, Thomas Friend, and included the site rented by the Prince of Wales for his Royal Pavilion. He was MP for Lewes from 1785 util his death. Father of Thomas Read Kemp.
Nathaniel Kemp. Landowner.
The younger brother of Thomas Kemp, he bought 350 acres of land at Ovingdean in 1788 and built Ovingdean Hall. One of his seven children was Charles Eamer Kempe.
Thomas Read Kemp [right]. Landowner and developer.The son of Thomas Kemp developed the Kemp Town estate in the east of Brighton. He married Frances, daughter of financier Sir Francis Baring, in 1806. MP for Lewes 1811-1816 but resigned to found a dissenting sect at St James's Chapel in St James's Street, which moved to Trinity Chapel in Ship Street. He abandoned the sect and returned to parliament as MP for Arundel 1823-1826 and Lewes again 1826-1837, but then fled to France to evade his creditors. He died in Paris and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
• Kemptown
• 22 Sussex Square
• Kemp Court, Manor Road
• The Thomas Kemp, 8 St George's Road [PH, formerly Burlington Arms]
PERSONAL
• Ovingdean Hall, Greenways
1856-1926
Born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, the son of a clergyman, was vicar of St John's Church, Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, who came into a parcel of land in Aldrington in 1893.
• Kendal Road
1819-1880
Irish barrister.Most notably he was counsel for the Tichbourne Claimant in 1873: his scandalous conduct of the case earning the censure of the jury. When he was elected MP for Stoke-on-Trent in 1875, no member was prepared to introduce him, as was the convention, to which prime minister Disraeli forced an end. He lived in Portslade from 1852 to 1874 and he is buried in Hangleton.
• 8-9 Wellington Road, Copperas Gap [residence 1852-1874]
• St Helen's Church, Hangleton
1773-1853
Army officer and politician.Joining the army as a cornet in the Dragons in 1796, he rose through the ranks to become a major by 1802 and colonel in 1813. He was badly wounded at the battle of Artes and slightly at Waterloo when he had a horse shot out from under him. He was MP for Shaftesbury (1813-1818), Northampton (1818-1820) and Eye (1824-1852) and an extensive landowner and Brighton resident. He was created a baronet in 1821.
Image: Portrait by Robert Mendham [Eye Town Council]
• Kerrison Mews
† Kerrison Arms, 101 Edward Street [PH 1856-1867]
• Kerrison Arms, 3 Waterloo Street [PH 1832] was The Iron Duke, now Southern Belle
PERSONAL
• 27 Brunswick Terrace [residence 1842-1850]
1861-1943
Soldier.Born in Plymouth, the son of a soldier. He served in India in the 1880s, promoted to captain in 1891, major in 1899, colonel by 1912. CB (1915), CMG (1918), CVO (1922), KCVO (1932), the latter for services as honorary secretary and manager of the Royal Tournament. His estranged wife, Lady Sarah Anne King, who sued for divorce in 1905 on the grounds of desertion but was still described as his wife at the time of her death, was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the First World War. She died in April 1918 and is buried in the Brookwood war grave cemetery. Eight days after her death Sir Charles married an actress and elocutionist, who was a visitor with her two sisters (vocal artists) in 1911.
Image: Portrait (1919), Royal Collection Trust
• Woodlands, 26 Withdean Road [residence 1918-1919]
• 12 Bishops Road [residence 1939]
• 26 Brangwyn Avenue [residence 1943]
1850-1939
Sailor.Joining the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1864, he was captain of HMS Penguin 1877-1889 and secured the Maldives as a British protectorate. He was promoted to commander in 1885. For four months from December 1899 he was commander of HMS Revenge, a battleship in the Mediterranean, before becoming chief of staff to Sir John Fisher, that station's commander-in-chief. He returned to the Revenge and was senior officer of the Coast of IReland station 1906-1908. He became commander-in-chief of the Australia station in 1911-1913, preparing the way for the Royal Australian Navy to take over naval defences. He returned to England and soon retired, settling in Hove.
• 7 Albany Villas [residence 1910-1925]
1869-1913
Son of a civil engineer in a family that moved to Brighton by 1878, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891. He moved with his family to London by 1894 but returned with his widowed mother to Brighton by 1911. His paintings 'Venus and Tannhäuser' and 'Idyll' are in the collection of Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries.
• 8 St Michael's Place [residence 1878-1894, 1911-1913]
1842-1921
Geographer and anarchist philosopher.Russian emigré who moved to Brighton from Bromley for the good of his health in November 1910 and lived here until returning to Russia at the time of the revolution in spring 1917.
• 9 Chesham Street [residence 1910-1917]