[4] He had limited success in his second University Match against Oxford, but was then picked for the Gentlemen against the Players, where, in a rare victory for the amateurs by 60 runs, he bowled unchanged through both Players' innings with Sir Frederick Bathurst, 24 years his senior, and took nine wickets to Bathurst's 11.
[6] Beyond this, he played no more first-class cricket except for a single game for MCC in 1865 when he took no wickets, scored no runs and was absent for the second innings.
[9] After graduation, Kempson went to India as a teacher; from 1858 he was headmaster of the Government College at Bareilly and then an Inspector of Schools in Agra.
[8] From 1862 to 1878 he was "director of public instruction" in the North West Provinces before returning to England where he was a teacher of Indian history and oriental languages at Cambridge University.
He does not appear to have been related to William Kempson, his near contemporary who also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and amateur sides in the mid 1850s.