Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot,
DSO,
MC (3 May 1874 – 7 January 1968), was a British politician.
Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of
William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Royal Horse Guards
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Raised in August 1650 at Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham by Sir Arthur Haselrigge on the orders of Oliver Cr ...
and was awarded the
Distinguished Service Order and the
Military Cross. Kerr entered the
House of Commons at the
Montrose Burghs by-election in 1932 as a member of the
National Liberal Party. He was
Chief Whip
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United Kingdom
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of the National Liberals and served as a
Junior Lord of the Treasury (government whip) from 1937 to 1939 and as
Comptroller of the Household
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from 1939 to 1940 in the
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. On 27 June 1940 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Teviot, of Burghclere in the
County of Southampton. He then served as Chairman of the Liberal National Party (from 1948 known as the National Liberal Party) from 1940 to 1956. He was also a member of the anti-semite
Right Club.
Lord Teviot married, firstly, Muriel Constance, daughter of William Gordon Canning, in 1911. They had no children and were divorced in 1930. He married, secondly, Florence Angela, daughter of Charles Walter Villiers, in 1930. In 1960 he unsuccessfully moved to ban publication of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' and all books akin.
Teviot died in January 1968, aged 93, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his second marriage, Charles. Lady Teviot died in 1979.
Arms
Citations
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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1874 births
1968 deaths
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Kerr, Charles
Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939
Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians
Barons created by George VI
Recipients of the Military Cross
Royal Horse Guards officers
Kerr, Charles
Kerr, Charles
UK MPs who were granted peerages
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