the Second Boer War. He was appointed a captain of the Imperial Yeomanry, in command of the 23rd company (the Yeomanry detachment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry), to serve as part of the 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. His company left Liverpool on the SS Africa on 12 February, and arrived in Cape Town the following month. For his service he was mentioned in despatches. He left again for South Africa in May 1902, as temporary lieutenant-colonel in command of the 32nd Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry, including a machine-gun section which he had helped raise. The battalion arrived shortly after the war ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902, and never saw any fighting. Kemp obtained leave to return home before his regiment, and left Cape Town on the in late September 1902, arriving at Southampton the following month. He relinquished his commission with the Imperial Yeomanry and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army on 12 October 1902. Called to war again in 1914, Lord Rochdale was Lieutenant-Colonel in command the 1st/6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, part of 125th (1/1st Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade, and was temporarily Brigadier-general of 127th (1/1st Manchester) Brigade of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. Family Kemp married, on 5 August 1896, Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton (1871–1966), third daughter of Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere. Lady Beatrice Kemp joined her husband in South Africa in early 1900. They had three children. Lord Rochdale died at Lingholm near Keswick, Cumberland in 1945, aged 88, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John. Arms References Who was Who, OUP 2007 External links CricketArchive: George Kemp 1866 births 1945 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Kemp, Sir George Lord-Lieutenants of Middlesex Kemp, George People educated at Shrewsbury School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Lancashire Fusiliers officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army generals of World War I English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Kemp, George Kemp, George Kemp, George Kemp, George UK MPs who were granted peerages People from Rochdale Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Imperial Yeomanry officers Military personnel from Lancashire Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Married v Single cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry officers