About Dudley Kemp
Lived 1910 – 2003 (aged 92–93). Dudley Kemp was a rugby union player.
Dudley Thomas Kemp (18 January 1910 – January 2003) was an English international rugby union player.
Kemp was born in the Isle of Wight and educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton.
A back-row forward, Kemp won his solitary England cap via Blackheath, playing a 1935 Home Nations match against Wales at Twickenham. He also competed with Trojans and made a county record 51 representative appearances for Hampshire, winning championship titles in 1933 and 1936, the latter as captain.
Kemp served as Rugby Football Union president in 1969 and 1970. He was also a long-serving Hampshire RFU administrator, as team secretary, match secretary, RFU committee representative and president.
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Who was Dudley Kemp?
rugby player
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Dudley Kemp was born on 18 January 1910.
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Dudley Kemp died in 2003.
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Dudley Kemp was a rugby union player.
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