George Durant Kemp-Welch was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire, Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club and other amateur teams between 1927 and 1936.
15 Facts About George Kemp-Welch
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George Kemp-Welch was born in Chelsea, London, and died in the V1 bombing of the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, in Westminster.
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George Kemp-Welch had an older twin brother, Peter Wellesbourne, and a sister who was just a year older, Elizabeth, who won later fame under her married name of Betty Kenward, the writer of the "Jennifer's Diary" social column in Tatler.
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The Kemp-Welch twins were educated at Charterhouse School, and George went on to Cambridge University, where he won Blues for both cricket and association football, being captain in both sports.
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The cause for discretion was that the bride was not only the daughter of one of the leaders of the National Government, Stanley Baldwin, but that the bride, some twelve years George Kemp-Welch's senior, had divorced her previous husband Richard Gordon Munro.
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George Kemp-Welch did not play again in that season, but in February 1928 he was a member of an amateur-led tour to Jamaica under Lionel Tennyson that played three first-class games against the Jamaica side and although his highest score on the tour was only 38, he batted consistently and ascended the batting order, opening the innings in the final game.
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George Kemp-Welch again played a few matches for the Warwickshire side in the 1928 season.
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George Kemp-Welch rejoined Warwickshire for a few matches after the university term was over, but did not make much impact.
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George Kemp-Welch won a second Blue for soccer and was praised in The Times as "a first-rate constructive player in mid-field, but [ ] knows how to score plenty of goals".
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George Kemp-Welch played frequently for the two leading public-school amateur ad hoc football teams, Corinthian FC and Casuals FC His cricket contribution to the Cambridge side in 1930 was similar to that in 1929 with useful runs and wickets but no outstanding innings or analyses; as in 1929, some of his best work was done in the University Match, when he scored 61 and 8 and took two wickets and two catches.
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George Kemp-Welch was captain of both the soccer and the cricket teams in his final year at Cambridge, and as centre-forward in the football team he was seen as the key player on the Cambridge side in the university soccer match.
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George Kemp-Welch left full-time cricket at the end of the 1932 season, though he played in a few more first-class games in the years up to 1936, mostly for the MCC and for the itinerant Free Foresters.
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George Kemp-Welch returned to Warwickshire only twice in that period, but on one of those appearances, when he captained the side against Glamorgan in 1934, he made an unbeaten 123, his only century for the county.
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George Kemp-Welch was commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the Grenadier Guards, service No 131986 in 1940.
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George Kemp-Welch is buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Astley in Astley, Worcestershire.