John Kempe (c. 1610 – 5 October 1652) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1652.
His father died in 1622, leaving him the family estate, and his mother remarried Bromfield.
[4][5] He carried the demands of the Parliamentarians to the King Charles when he was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle,[1] but is not recorded in the Rump Parliament after Pride's Purge' Kempe lived at Buckler's Hard, near Beaulieu and at Haywood in the parish of Boldre.
He died unmarried in 1652 at the age of 41 and was buried at Boldre Church on 7 October.
[1] There remains a striking alabaster bust with a Latin inscription on the north wall of the nave at Boldre Church.