Anne Patricia Kerr (née Bersey; 24 March 1925 – 29 July 1973) was a British Labour Party politician who was elected for two successive terms as a Member of Parliament.
Born in Putney into a Methodist family, she spent most of her childhood in west London, attending St Paul's Girls School.
She won the Rochester and Chatham seat at the 1964 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Julian Critchley with a majority of 1,013 votes.
[4] Always passionately interested in human rights issues, Kerr was vocal in protesting against the executions of three black Rhodesians in 1968, the first since Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, placing a wreath of flowers outside the Rhodesian High Commission (Rhodesia House) in London on the day of the executions, on 6 March.
[6] She and her husband were also two of three British MPs who accompanied Gerry Fitt MP for West Belfast on the Civil Rights march in Derry on 5 October 1968, which is generally regarded as the starting point for the Troubles in Northern Ireland.