[3] Kemp-Welch's mother, Verena Georgina (Venour), was, according to the obituary of Betty Kenward, unorthodox in her living arrangements, having a succession of affairs.
[4][5] The Kemp-Welch twins were educated at Charterhouse School, and George went on to Cambridge University, where he won Blues for both cricket and association football, being captain in both sports.
In the autumn of 1928, Kemp-Welch went to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and within a term he had won a Blue for football, where he played as a centre forward.
In the match itself, he did well: he made his first score of over 50, an innings of 57 that held together a shaky opening for the Cambridge side that the later batsman were well able to build on; he took three middle-order wickets when Oxford batted.
[1] As Cambridge cricket captain, he led a team that was highly inconsistent throughout the season, yet his own form as an opening batsman was consistently good, and he scored 1111 runs during the university season, more than 2.5 times the highest aggregate of any of his team-mates; included in this total were the first three centuries of his career, the highest being 126 against the H. D. G. Leveson Gower XI just before the University Match.
[15] The inconsistency of the team as a whole lost them the University Match; Kemp-Welch's opening batsman colleague, Alan Ratcliffe, a last-minute selection for the team as he had been out of form all season, scored the first double century in the history of the University Match and put on 149 for the first wicket with Kemp-Welch, yet Cambridge still lost after Ratcliffe's innings was surpassed by the Nawab of Pataudi for Oxford and through a poor Cambridge second-innings batting performance.
[1] At the start of 1932, Kemp-Welch was a member for the second time of an unofficial tour to the West Indies under Lionel Tennyson which, as in 1927–28, played three first-class matches against the Jamaica side.
[1] Kemp-Welch left full-time cricket at the end of the 1932 season, though he played in a few more first-class games in the years up to 1936, mostly for the MCC and for the itinerant Free Foresters.