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Biography

Charles was born on 6 August 1624 at

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daughter of

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and the second wife of

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/ref> Until he inherited his father's title after the death of his father in December 1654 he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Carr. Kerr had a long career in the English House of Commons. He was able to continue to sit in that house after he was ennobled, the fact that

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was a Scottish title was no impediment to sitting in the English House of Commons representing an English or Welsh constituency. Kerr was the Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Michaels in Cornwall between March 1647 and December 1648 in the

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, a Royalist, was disabled from sitting for St. Michaels and gave the seat to Kerr, who constituency's MP until he was excluded in

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. Between July 1660 and December 1660 Kerr sat in the Convention Parliament representing

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. After the

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In the

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(from 1661 to 1681) he represented

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and again in the Oxford Parliament (from 1661 and 1681). The last Parliament in which he sat, still for Wigan, was the

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the first parliament of the reign of

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(from 1685 to 1687). On his death, sometime between 1 September 1690 and 11 September 1690, the earldom devolved upon Robert Kerr, (afterwards

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), the eldest son of Kerr's elder half brother

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Family

Ancram married Frances who was a Lady of the Bedchamber to

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, Queen Consort to King Charles II. They had daughter, Anne, who married Colonel Nathaniel Rich. Rich and Anne, his second wife, had no children.

Notes

References

*Anderson, William (1867). ''The Scottish nation: or. The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland'', Volume 2, A. Fullarton, 1867 *Lodge, Edmund (1847). ''The genealogy of the existing British peerage: with sketches of the family histories of the nobility'', Saunders and Otley, 1847 *Lodge, Edmund (1850).''Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain: With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions'', Volume 5, H.G. Bohn, 1850 , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ancram, Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl Of Earls of Ancram Members of the Parliament of England for Mitchell 1624 births 1690 deaths English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1685–1687 People from Richmond, London