Background
He was born at Longhope in the Orkney Islands, where his father was the minister.
He was born at Longhope in the Orkney Islands, where his father was the minister.
Not to be confused with the French literary critic Robert Kemp (literary critic)
Educated at Robert Gordon"s College and the University of Aberdeen, he lived in London and then in Edinburgh (in Warriston Crescent). In 1948, working with Tyrone Guthrie, he staged a revival of Scotland"s first Scottish play, David Lyndsay’s Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and, also in 1948, he coined the phrase “Edinburgh Festival Fringe”.