Robert Kemp

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 son of Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet MP, of Gissing, Norfolk and his second wife Mary Sone, daughter of John Sone of Ubbeston. He was admitted at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on 23 May 1685. He married Letitia King, daughter of Robert King of Great Thurlow, Suffolk. After her death he married as his second wife Elizabeth Brand, daughter. of John Brand of Edwardstone, Suffolk in about 1699.

In 1727 Kemp's third wife Martha died and he married as his fourth wife Amy Burroughs, widow of John Burrough of Ipswich, daughter of Richard Phillips on 9 July 1728. He was returned unopposed as MP for Suffolk at a by-election on 9 February 1732. He voted against the Government on the Excise Bill in 1733 and for the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. At the 1734 British general election he was returned again unopposed for Suffolk, but did not survive more than a few months.

Kemp died at Ufford, Suffolk on 18 December 1734, after suddenly being taken ill in his coach on his way to Parliament. He had one daughter by his first wife, five sons and two daughters by his second wife, and three children by his third wife. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Robert.