Thomas Kempe


Thomas Kempe was a medieval Bishop of London.
Kempe was the nephew of John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Kempe was provided to London on 21 August 1448 and consecrated on 8 February 1450. He died on 28 March 1489. He had previously held the offices of Archdeacon of York and then Richmond from 1442 to 1448.
There was a memorial to him by the tenth column at the west end of Old St Paul's Cathedral.

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