John Kempthorne (bishop)

John Augustine Kempthorne (26 May 1864, London – 24 February 1946, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire) was an Anglican Bishop in the first half of the twentieth century.

[3][4] He then held incumbencies at Rochdale, Sunderland, Liverpool,[5] and Hessle,[3][6] before elevation to the episcopate in March 1910 as Bishop of Hull, a Suffragan to the Archbishop of York.

Whilst he was prepared to work for peace, his pacifism did not extend to rejection of the war, given the UK's obligations to Belgium.

We stand for loyalty to our engagements, for the protection of weaker peoples, for the liberty of Europe.’ [13] He noted that Christian leaders of Germany were also confident of the rightness of their cause.

An uncertain and inconclusive peace would only leave the world in worse case than before.’ [15] Kempthorne had married in 1890, Hester Mary was the daughter of John Peile, the master of Christ's College, Cambridge.