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Letter, 2 August 1870
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CA MUA MG 1022-6-008-0006
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2 August 1870 (Creation)
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- Kemp, Daniel William
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- Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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(1844-1922)
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Daniel William Kemp was born in 1844 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
He was a metal merchant and paint manager. He was educated at the local Grammar school and at Edinburgh Academy. He was interested in business, politics, literature, science, art, antiquities, volunteering, and philanthropy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. On the formation of the Scottish History Society in 1887, he became its editor. He edited "Pococke's Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760." He was the founder of the Edinburgh Association of Science and Art in 1891. Kemp was for many years a moving spirit in the Sutherland Association (Edinburgh) and was appointed a Justice of the Peace of the Southerland County.
In 1869, he married Ellen Primrose Bell (1849–). He died on February 27, 1922, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Letter from D. William Kemp to George M. Dawson, written from Leith.
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Accession no.
976