Tom Kerr (politician)

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Tom Kerr
T.C. Kerr one of the soldiers photographed in The Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander 1917.jpg
T.C. Kerr photographed in The Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander , 1917
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Oxley
In office
17 April 1943 –29 April 1950
Preceded by Thomas Nimmo
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Sherwood
In office
29 April 1950 –19 May 1956
Preceded byNew seat
Succeeded by John Herbert
Personal details
Born
Thomas Caldwell Kerr

(1887-08-15)15 August 1887
Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Died25 June 1956(1956-06-25) (aged 68)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Nationality Australian
Political party Liberal Party
Other political
affiliations		 UAP, QPP
Spouse(s)Lillian Berry (m.1919 d.1954)
Occupation Accountant

Thomas Caldwell Kerr (15 August 1887 – 25 June 1956) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]

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Biography

Kerr was born at Stanthorpe, Queensland, the son of John Kerr and his wife Mary (née Caldwell). He was educated at Sherwood State School and from 1905 to 1915 was a pearl sheller in the Dutch East Indies and Thursday Island. Later on he was a public accountant and auditor with Wright, Kerr and Co. in Brisbane. [1]

He served in the First Australian Imperial Force in World War I, being based with the 31st Infantry Battalion. [1]

On 8 November 1919 he married Lillian Violet Berry [1] (died 1954) [2] in Brisbane and together had two sons and one daughter. One of their sons died in World War II while serving as a Spitfire Pilot in France. Kerr died in June 1956. [1] He was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium and his ashes are in the columbarium wall at St Matthew's Anglican Church, Sherwood. [3]

Public life

Kerr, a member of the UAP, and later the QPP and the Liberal Party, won the seat of Oxley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the 1943 by-election to replace Thomas Nimmo who had died in February of that year. He was to represent the seat until it was abolished before the 1950 state election. [1]

He then moved to the new seat of Sherwood, holding it for six years until he retired from politics in 1956. [1] He collapsed and died a month later in his Queen Street office.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Thomas Caldwell KERR 25-6-1956 — Chapel Hill Photos. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
Thomas Nimmo 		Member for Oxley
1943–1950		Abolished
New seat Member for Sherwood
1950–1956		Succeeded by
John Herbert
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