OBITUARY.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14975, 24 January 1919, Page 4

OBITUARY.

BE. W. G. KEMP.

A private cable message received hn Wellington announces the death on Imday last, presumably at Hastings, England, of Dr. William George Kemp, wlio was the first superintendent of the iNelson Hospital, and subsequently for many years was one of the leadinomedical practitioners in Wellington. me late Dr. Kemp was born at Alnwick,-* Northumberland, 72 years ago and was a son of Major Kemp, who left ms regiment for a time to become Master of the Horse for the Duke of Northumberland, and who, on returning to the Army, received a staff appoinunent at Canterbury, England. Dr. Jvemp studied medicino'at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and passed ins examinations brilliantly, qualifying S eU hfi Wr- S Old eno"Sli to do so. me authorities of Nelson Hospital requested the officials of St. Bartholomew j to select a young man of" character and ability to take up the ?:osition of medical superintendent of taeir new hospital, and Dr. Kemp -received the appointment when he "was 22 or 23 years of age. He arrived in JNew Zealand about half a century ago, and during his residence in Nelson was. married to Miss Charlotte Greenwood, daughter of Dr. Greenwood, of Motueka and niec ; e of Mrs. Greenwood, of Nelson. After his marriage he took over Dr. Boor's practice in Wellington, an dremained there until January, 1892,'. when he returned to the Old Country. 7 Some time after going back to the land of his birth he took his M.D. degree, London, but did not practise any more! For some years he was chief medical officer-of the A.M.P. Society, and was at one time churchwarden at St. Paul's. Pro-Cathedral, Thorndon, Wellington;. IHe has left a widow (resident at Hastings, England) and four sons and three daughters. The sons are Mr. Geoffrey * i?« t dlf3tnct manager for the A.M.P. Society at InvercargiUL; Da\ John Harold Kemp, of Wellington Smith ; Major Frederick William Kemp, M.C., New Zealand Medical Corps (now m France); and Captain Charles Cxordon Komp, M.D., M.C., Royal Army Medical Corps, who is also on activeservice in France. The daughters are Mrs. Macpherson (London), and Miss Kemp and Miss Violet Kemp, who are living with their mother. One of the daughters (Sister Elise Kemp) was killed while on active service on the Western front, and another (Miss Kathleen Kemp) died at Home about nine years ago.