| Full name | Dudley Thomas Kemp | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1910-01-18)18 January 1910 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Isle of Wight | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | January 2003 (aged 92) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Torridge, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | King Edward VI School | ||||||||||||||||
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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.
See also
References
- ^ "Hampshire mourns ex-president Kemp". Daily Echo. 6 January 2003.
- "D. T. Kemp (Blackheath)". Evening Express. 15 January 1935.
- "Hampshire Official Appointed to R.F.U." Portsmouth Evening News. 3 December 1955.
External links
- Dudley Kemp at ESPNscrum
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- 1910 births
- 2003 deaths
- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- English rugby union executives
- Rugby union number eights
- Rugby union players from the Isle of Wight
- Blackheath F.C. players
- Hampshire County RFU players
- People educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton
- 20th-century English sportsmen