William Shaw Kerr (1873 - 2 February 1960) was an Irish Anglican bishop, the first Bishop of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. [1]
Kerr was born in 1873 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin [2] and ordained in 1897, his first post was a curacy at Lurgan. [3] He was then Rector of Banbridge, Archdeacon of Dromore and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Dean of Belfast. He was elected Bishop of Down and Dromore on 9 December 1944 and consecrated on 25 January 1945. He resigned on 31 July 1955 and died on 2 February 1960. [4]
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