Trinity College , Cambridge
George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale went to which school from May 1884 to 1888?
George Kemp , 1st Baron Rochdale George Kemp , 1st Baron Rochdale , ( 9 June 1866 – 24 March 1945 ) was a British politician , soldier , businessman and cricketer . Education and business career . Kemp was born at Beechwood , Rochdale , Lancashire , and educated at Shrewsbury and Mill Hill Schools . Matriculating at Balliol College , Oxford , in 1883 , aged 16 , Kemp transferred to Trinity College , Cambridge , in 1884 , where he graduated B.A . in the Classical Tripos in 1888 . In business , Kemp went into the woollen industry eventually becoming Chairman of Kelsall & Kemp , flannel manufacturers . Cricket . From 1885 to 1892 , Kemp played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Cambridge University . A batsman , he scored three centuries all against Yorkshire - 109 in the Roses Match , at Huddersfield , in 1885 whilst still a teenager and 125 and 103 within 18 days of each other in 1886 at Fenners and Sheffield respectively . While at Shrewsbury School he appeared in one county cricket match for Shropshire . He was also , at university , a lawn tennis Blue . Politics . In 1895 , he was elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Heywood as Liberal Unionist . He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Ellison-Macartney , Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty , until January 1900 , when he resigned to serve in the Second Boer War . In 1904 , along with Winston Churchill , Kemp was among a group of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Free Traders who crossed the floor to join the Liberals in response to Joseph Chamberlains Tariff reform policies . In 1909 , he was knighted for his war services and at the January 1910 general election he was elected MP for Manchester North West , this time as a Liberal . Kemp found himself increasingly out of step with the actions of the Liberal government . He was opposed to the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd Georges financial policies . He also opposed Lloyd Georges advocacy of Welsh disestablishment . His long-standing opposition to Irish Home Rule had not diminished and he opposed the Liberal Governments Irish Home Rule bill . As he still felt out of step with the Unionists advocacy of Tariff Reform , he decided to retire from the House of Commons . He declared that he loathed politics . A year later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rochdale , of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster . Military career . Kemp had been a captain of the Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry since July 1891 . In early February 1900 , Kemp volunteered for active service in South Africa during the Second Boer War . He was appointed a captain of the Imperial Yeomanry , in command of the 23rd company ( the Yeomanry detachment of the Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry ) , to serve as part of the 8th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry . His company left Liverpool on the SS Africa on 12 February , and arrived in Cape Town the following month . For his service he was mentioned in despatches . He left again for South Africa in May 1902 , as temporary lieutenant-colonel in command of the 32nd Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry , including a machine-gun section which he had helped raise . The battalion arrived shortly after the war ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902 , and never saw any fighting . Kemp obtained leave to return home before his regiment , and left Cape Town on the SS Kildonan Castle in late September 1902 , arriving at Southampton the following month . He relinquished his commission with the Imperial Yeomanry and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army on 12 October 1902 . Called to war again in 1914 , Lord Rochdale was Lieutenant-Colonel in command the 1st/6th Battalion , Lancashire Fusiliers , part of 125th ( 1/1st Lancashire Fusiliers ) Brigade , and was temporarily Brigadier-general of 127th ( 1/1st Manchester ) Brigade of the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 . Family . Kemp married , on 5 August 1896 , Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton ( 1871–1966 ) , third daughter of Francis Egerton , 3rd Earl of Ellesmere . Lady Beatrice Kemp joined her husband in South Africa in early 1900 . They had three children . Lord Rochdale died at Lingholm near Keswick , Cumberland in 1945 , aged 88 , and was succeeded by his eldest son , John . References . - Who was Who , OUP 2007 External links . - CricketArchive : George Kemp