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.^[1] He had previously held the offices of Archdeacon of York and then Richmond from 1442 to 1448.^[2]

There was a memorial to him by the tenth column at the west end of Old St Paul's Cathedral.^[3]

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Jones, B. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 6: Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham): Archdeacons: Richmond. Institute for Historical Research.

• Will of Thomas Kempe
• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Thomas Kemp" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 83–84.

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