title: Thomas Kempe
text: # 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. He had previously held the offices of Archdeacon of York and then Richmond from 1442 to 1448.
  
  There was a memorial to him by the tenth column at the west end of Old St Paul's Cathedral.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * ↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 259
  * ↑ Jones Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: volume 6: Northern province (York, Carlisle and Durham): Archdeacons: Richmond
  * ↑ "Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p. 91: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909
  