Tom Kerr (politician)
Tom Kerr | |
|---|---|
 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 by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Sherwood | |
| In office 29 April 1950 – 19 May 1956 | |
| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | John Herbert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Caldwell Kerr 15 August 1887 Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 25 June 1956 (aged 68) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Other political affiliations | UAP, QPP |
| Spouse | 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]
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]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.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ Thomas Caldwell KERR 25-6-1956 — Chapel Hill Photos. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
