Sir Hamilton William Kerr, 1st Baronet (1 August 1903 – 26 December 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist.
[2] His older brother was Henry Grace Kerr,[1] who was killed in France during World War I.
He held the seat until losing it to Labour at the 1945 general election.
[4] During the Second World War, he served in a balloon squadron in the Royal Air Force and briefly held office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the 1945 caretaker government.
In 1954, Kerr was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.