Roland John Kemp
1963 Obituary[1]
"WE record with regret the death on Friday, November 22, of MR. ROLAND JOHN KEMP, deputy director of engineering and research of The Marconi Company Ltd. Mr. Kemp joined the company in 1917, as a test room improver, and later worked on direction finding equipment and commercial receivers. From 1930 to 1939, he was engineer-in-charge of television research, working under Mr. H. M. Dowsett.
During the war, he was responsible for special research for the Air Ministry at Great Baddow. In 1946 he was appointed assistant chief of research at Great Baddow and in 1948 he succeeded Mr. R. G. Robb as chief of research. Mr. Kemp became deputy engineer-in-chief of the company in 1954, before being appointed deputy director of engineering and research at the beginning of this year. Mr. Kemp took an active part in the life of the engineering world, and was, among other things a past president of the Chelmsford Engineering Society and a trustee of the Marconi Benevolent Fund. He was currently a member of the Postmaster General's Frequency Advisory Committee, and had been a member of the Radio Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research."
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- ↑ The Engineer 1963 Jul-Dec