Kemp, George Meikle, architect, born in Moorfoot, Peeblesshire; bred a millwright, became a draughtsman, studied Gothic architecture, and designed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh; was drowned one evening in the Union Canal before the work was finished (1796‒1844).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kemble, Stephen * Kempen