William Kerr (Canadian politician)
William Kerr (February 27, 1836 – November 22, 1906) was a lawyer and political figurein Ontario, Canada. He represented Northumberland West in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1878 as a Liberal member and served in the Senate of Canada from 1899 to 1906.[1]
He was born in
Queen's Counsel in 1876. He ran unsuccessfully for the federal seat in 1878 and 1882. Kerr was named to the Senate in 1899 and died in office in 1906[1] in Toronto, Ontario.[2]
He married Myra Jane Field, the sister of MPPs John C. and Corelli C. Field.[3] His daughter, Edith Kerr Macdonald (1870–1957), was the first woman to hold a municipal office in Cobourg.
References
- ^ a b c William Kerr – Parliament of Canada biography
- ^ Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
- ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1898). The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography (First ed.). Toronto: William Briggs.
- Mackintosh, C.H., ed. (1876). The Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register. Ottawa: Citizen Printing and Publishing Company.