John Kemp, Min. of Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh

Biographical Summary

John Kemp, born 1745, son of David K, min. of Gask ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; licen. by Presb. of Auchterarder 7th Feb. 1769 ; ord. to Trinity Gask, 4th April 1770 ; trans, to New Greyfriars 19th Dec. 1776 ; trans, and adm. 25th Nov. 1779 ; secretary to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 1789; D.D. (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, U.SA., 1793); died 18th April 1805. He marr.

(1) 2nd Oct. 1780, Beatrix (died 12th March 1796), daugh. of Andrew Simpson, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue —

• David of Balsusney, born 13th Sept. 1781;
• Agnes, born 18th Aug. 1783;
• Jane, born 24th Sept. 1784, died 24th Aug. 1794;
• Robert, born 22nd July 1790, died 5th Sept. 1790

(2) 2nd June 1797, Lady Mary Anne Carnegie (died 11th Aug. 1798), youngest daugh. of George, Earl of Northesk

(3) 26th Aug. 1799, Lady Elizabeth Hope (died 17th Sept. 1801, aged 33), seventh daugh. of John, Earl of Hopetoun.

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 124