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'''Viscount Rochdale''', of [[Rochdale]] in the [[County Palatine of Lancaster]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41936 |date=22 January 1960 |page=611}}</ref> It was created on 20 January 1960 for [[John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale|John Kemp, 2nd Baron Rochdale]]. He was Chairman of the woollen manufacturing firm of Kelsall & Kemp Ltd and a former President of the National Union of Manufacturers and Governor of the [[BBC]]. The title of '''Baron Rochdale''', of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 14 February 1913 for his father, [[George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale|George Kemp]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28690 |date=14 February 1913 |page=1146}}</ref> He was Chairman of Kelsall & Kemp Ltd, a [[Brigadier-General]] in the Army, and former Member of Parliament for [[South East Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)|South East Lancashire]] and [[Manchester North West (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester North West]]. {{As of|2022}} the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2015.<br />
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==Barons Rochdale (1913)==<br />
*[[George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale]] (1866–1945)<br />
*[[John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale|John Durival Kemp, 2nd Baron Rochdale]] (1906–1993) (created '''Viscount Rochdale''' in 1960)<br />
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==Viscounts Rochdale (1960)==<br />
*[[John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale|John Durival Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale]] (1906–1993)<br />
*St John Durival Kemp, 2nd Viscount Rochdale (1938–2015)<br />
*Jonathan Hugo Durival Kemp, 3rd Viscount Rochdale (b. 1961)<br />
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The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's only nephew George Thomas Kemp (b. 2001)<br />
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There are no other heirs in line to the titles.<br />
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==Arms==<br />
{{Infobox COA wide<br />
|name = the Viscounts Rochdale<br />
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Rochdale Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]<br />
|crest = A cubit arm erect vested Argent cuffed Azure the hand Proper grasping a chaplet Vert encircling a rose as in the arms.<br />
|coronet = A [[Coronet|Coronet of a Viscount]]<br />
|escutcheon = Argent a chevron engrailed Gules between two estoiles in chief Azure and a rose of the second in base barbed and seeded Proper.<br />
|supporters = On either side a ram Or charged on the shoulder with a rose Gules slipped and leaved Proper.<br />
|motto = Lucem Spero (I Hope For Light)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=4151}}</ref>}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.<br />
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-st-kemp | St John Durival Kemp, 2nd Viscount Rochdale }}<br />
*{{cite web|title=Viscount Rochdale Family History|url=http://viscountrochdale.com|website=Viscountrochdale.com|access-date=4 November 2016}}<br />
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