Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram

For other people named Charles Carr, see Charles Carr (disambiguation).

Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram (1624 – September 1690) was a Scottish peer and a member of the English House of Commons. ^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Charles was born on 6 August 1624 at Richmond, Surrey to Anne daughter of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby and the second wife of Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of Ancram. ^{[3] [4]} Until he inherited his father's title after the death of his father in December 1654 he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Carr. ^{[5] [6]}

Kerr had a long career in the English House of Commons. He was able to continue to sit in that house after he was ennobled, the fact that Earl of Ancram was a Scottish title was no impediment to sitting in the English House of Commons representing an English or Welsh constituency. Kerr was the Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Michaels in Cornwall between March 1647 and December 1648 in the Long Parliament, ^[6] Robert Holborne, a Royalist, was disabled from sitting for St. Michaels and gave the seat to Kerr, who constituency's MP until he was excluded in Pride's Purge. ^[7] Between July 1660 and December 1660 Kerr sat in the Convention Parliament representing Thirsk. After the Restoration In the Cavalier Parliament (from 1661 to 1681) he represented Wigan and again in the Oxford Parliament (from 1661 and 1681). The last Parliament in which he sat, still for Wigan, was the Loyal Parliament the first parliament of the reign of James II (from 1685 to 1687). ^[6]

On his death, sometime between 1 September 1690 and 11 September 1690, the earldom devolved upon Robert Kerr, (afterwards Marquess of Lothian), the eldest son of Kerr's elder half brother William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian. ^[6]

Family

Ancram married Frances who was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine, Queen Consort to King Charles II. ^[8] They had daughter, Anne, who married Colonel Nathaniel Rich. ^{[9] [10] [11]} Rich and Anne, his second wife, had no children.

Notes

1. Also known as Charles Carr, 2nd Earl of Ancram.
2. Lodge (1847), p. 305
3. Hammond, Peter W., ed. (1998), The Complete Peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, vol. XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, p. 24, ISBN   978-0-904387-82-7 , retrieved 18 July 2020
4. Lodge (1850),p. 299
5. Lord Carr or Lord Kerr
6. Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Lord, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. I (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 132, ISBN   978-0-904387-82-7 , retrieved 18 July 2020
7. "Holborne, Robert"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Court satires of the Restoration – Page 59
9. Anderson (1867), p. 620
10. Notes and queries, Series 3, Volume 11, January to June 1867. p. 392 Correspondent cites Philip Morant, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, Vol. I.
11. "Rich, Nathaniel (d.1701)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

References

• Anderson, William (1867). The Scottish nation: or. The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland, Volume 2, A. Fullarton, 1867
• Lodge, Edmund (1847). The genealogy of the existing British peerage: with sketches of the family histories of the nobility, Saunders and Otley, 1847
• Lodge, Edmund (1850).Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain: With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, Volume 5, H.G. Bohn, 1850

Parliament of England
Vacant Title last held by William Chadwell Robert Holborne	Member of Parliament for Mitchell 1647–1648	Vacant Title next held by James Launce Richard Lobb
Preceded by Barrington Bourchier William Stanley	Member of Parliament for Thirsk 1660–1661 With: Barrington Bourchier	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Ingram Walter Strickland
Preceded by John Molyneux Roger Stoughton	Member of Parliament for Wigan 1661–1689 With: Geoffrey Shakerley 1661–1679 Roger Bradshaigh 1679 William Banks 1679–1681 Viscount Colchester 1681–1685 Lord Charles Murray 1685–1689	Succeeded by Sir Edward Chisenhall William Banks
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Robert Carr	Earl of Ancram 1654–1690	Succeeded by Robert Kerr