Penn Kemp was born Patricia Penn Anne Kemp on August 4, 1944, in Strathroy, Ontario.

She is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario (1968) and taught high school English and literature in Timmins and North York, Toronto, until 1970. Due to her interest in mythology, she has travelled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Mexico, South America, and India. In 1989, she earned an M.Ed. at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. As a poet, performer, and playwright, Kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication of poetry by Coach House (1972). She was Writer-in-Residence at the universities in Buffalo, NY; Findhorn, Scotland; Flesherton, Ontario; Rondonia, Brazil; and Mumbai and Baroda, India. She published over thirty books of poetry, prose and drama, seven plays and ten CDs, and produced several award-winning videopoems. She became London's inaugural Poet Laureate in 2010. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to the arts.

She lives in London, Ontario.

Ellen or Ella Primrose Bell was born in 1848, a daughter of Peter Bell and Mary Mercer Bell, and a niece of Margaret Mercer Dawson. In 1869, she married Daniel William Kemp. They had one son, Charles Norman Kemp.

Daniel William Kemp was born in 1844 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.

He was a metal merchant and paint manager. He was educated at the local Grammar school and at Edinburgh Academy. He was interested in business, politics, literature, science, art, antiquities, volunteering, and philanthropy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. On the formation of the Scottish History Society in 1887, he became its editor. He edited "Pococke's Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760." He was the founder of the Edinburgh Association of Science and Art in 1891. Kemp was for many years a moving spirit in the Sutherland Association (Edinburgh) and was appointed a Justice of the Peace of the Southerland County.

In 1869, he married Ellen Primrose Bell (1849–). He died on February 27, 1922, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

David Robert Kemp was born abt. 1847 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. He was an accountant and bank clerk in Scotland. In 1868, he married Margaret Anne Bell (1847–1934), niece of Margaret Ann Young Mercer Dawson and Sir William Dawson. He died on November 15, 1905, in London, England.

Alexander Ferrie Kemp was born on June 28, 1822, in West Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman, scholar, and administrator. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and the Presbyterian College, London, England. In 1850, he was ordained to the ministry and became a chaplain to the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot, then stationed in Bermuda. In 1855, he accepted a call to the St. Gabriel Street Church in Montreal, where he stayed until 1865. He was also an editor of the Canadian Presbyterian from 1857 to 1858, and in 1861, he published a valuable "Digest of the Minutes of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada". He was a member of the Natural History Society of Montreal and contributed frequently to the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. McGill College granted him an honorary degree of M.A. in 1863. He was also granted an honorary degree of LL.D. from Queen’s College, Kingston. In 1870, he left for the U.S. where he was teaching at Olivet College, Michigan, and at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. In 1874, he returned to Ontario and became principal of Young Ladies’ College in Brantford (1874-1878) and the Ottawa Ladies’ College (1878-1883).
In 1845, he married Mary Young (1819–1899). He died on May 3, 1884, in Hamilton, Ontario.