Sir James Kempt

(1764 c.-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Kempt Sir James (1764-1854) Knight General Governor General of Canada DNB: Kempt, Sir James (1763/4–1854), army officer and governor-in-chief of British North America LBT ID: JaKempt1854 VIAF ID: 104493936	B/BAP: 1764 DIED: 1854-12-20
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File
He was aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Abercromby and fought under Picton in the Peninsular War; he was a brigade-commander at Waterloo, and governor-general of Canada (1828-30).
REFERENCES TO Sir James Kempt: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 25 May 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 9 August 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ n2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 19 November 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Richard Sharp, [4 February] 1835 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 3 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1835 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. X: 1832-33 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch. XI: 1833