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 William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, (4 October 1763 – 27 April 1824), was a British soldier, landowner and politician. He was the son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian. He served as a representative peer from 1817 to 1824. Life ...

. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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and was awarded the

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and the

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. Kerr entered the

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at the Montrose Burghs by-election in 1932 as a member of the National Liberal Party. He was

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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

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from 1939 to 1940 in the National Government. On 27 June 1940 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Teviot, of Burghclere in the

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. He then served as Chairman of the Liberal National Party (known from 1948 as the National Liberal Party) from 1940 to 1956. He was also a member of the pro-Nazi

Right Club The Right Club was a small group of antisemitic and fascist sympathising renegades within the British establishment formed a few months before World War II by the Scottish Unionist MP Archibald Maule Ramsay. It was focused on opposition to war ...

. 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.

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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

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