She was awarded the Grande Médaille de Vermeil by the French Geographical Society for her 1921 work Chinese Mettle.

[2] The family were devout Baptists and wealthy middle class industrialists; her father and maternal grandfather Henry Kelsall ran a textile manufacturing firm.

In 1914, Kemp organised and supported trained nurses who travelled to France in January 1915 to work at the Hopital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, which became well known for its volunteer corps of artists and writers, including Kathleen Scott, John Masefield, Henry Tonks and Laurence Binyon.

[6] Kemp also donated a 19th-century Italian terracotta derived from the 'Annunciation lunette' in the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, by Andrea della Robbia, the subject of which was symbolic to her of the special importance of women in serving God.

[7] Kemp bequeathed her collection to the Indian Institute, Oxford, and it subsequently became a formative part of the Eastern Art Dept, Ashmolean Museum.