[[File:Plaque on a Ballycastle house - geograph.org.uk - 860090.jpg|thumb|right|Plaque commemorating Marconi and Kemp in Ballycastle]] '''George Stephen Kemp''' (1857 - 2 January, 1933, [[Southampton]]) was an electrical engineer and the first [[personal assistant]] to [[Guglielmo Marconi]].<ref name="Baker (1970) History of Marconi Company">{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=W. J. |title=A history of the Marconi Company |date=1970 |publisher=London, Methuen |location=London |isbn=978-0-416-17050-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmarconi0000bake/page/278/mode/2up?q=Baddow}}</ref><ref name="GMF Kemp">{{cite web |title=George Kemp |url=https://www.fgm.it/en/marconi-en/profiles/george-kemp.html |website=www.fgm.it |publisher=Guglielmo Marconi Foundation |access-date=9 November 2025}}</ref>Kemp was with Marconi at Kenmara House, [[Ballycastle, County Antrim]] when they carried out a successful experiment in [[Wireless Telegraphy]] on 25 August, 1898.
Kemp was a [[Royal Navy]] Instructor and electrician stationed on [[HMS Defiance]]. In July 1896 he came to the attention of Sir [[Henry Jackson (Royal Navy officer)|Henry Jackson]] who arranged for him to be seconded to work with [[William Preece]] at the [[Post office]]. The following year he started employment with Marconi, who he worked closely with until his death in 1933.<ref name="RNSUBMUS Radio">{{cite book |last1=Mason |first1=Len |title=Who Invented Radio? |date=2019 |publisher=Who invented Radio? Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum |location=Gosport |url=https://www.rnsubmusfriends.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/who-invented-radio.pdf}}</ref>
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