Peter Kemp

Peter Anderson Kemp (1877 to 1965) was a British swimmer and water polo player born in Galashiels, Scotland. He learned water polo as a member of the Leander Club in London and became a top-class player with the Osborne club in Manchester, later playing for Newcastle and then for the London Amateur and Barking swimming clubs, and he represented Surrey, Middlesex and England, winning two England caps against Ireland in 1900 and 1902. At the 1900 Paris Olympics he won a gold medal with the British water polo team, and on the same day he took bronze in the 200 metre obstacle race held in the River Seine, where competitors climbed over a pole and scrambled across boats before swimming under another row. He also swam the 200 metre freestyle but was unplaced. He died in Northampton in 1965, aged 88.