William Kempson

William John Kempson was an English soldier and cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England amateur team and for Cambridge University in the 1850s.He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and died at Folkestone, Kent. Kempson was educated at Rugby School and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1854, though there is no evidence that he took a degree.In both 1853 and 1854, he played a single first-class cricket match for the Gentlemen of England amateur team as a middle-order batsman.His single game for Cambridge University was the 1855 University Match against Oxford University in which he top-scored in the Cambridge first innings with 45 – by some distance his own best score in important matches – though the match was narrowly lost. He made further single appearances for the Gentlemen of England side in 1855 and 1858.