Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, GCB, PC, DL (28 September 1839 – 12 May 1927) was a Royal Navy officer.

In that capacity he presided over a period of continued re-armament in the face of German naval expansion but was unceasingly harassed by Admiral Sir John Fisher.

[2] After being mentioned in despatches on 31 March 1858[4] and promoted to mate on 28 September 1858, he transferred to the royal yacht HMY Victoria and Albert in June 1859.

[2] While serving on HMS Princess Royal and ashore in the treaty port of Yokohama, Kerr also found the opportunity to take some of the earliest photographic pictures of Japan[5] and in 1866 helped to establish the first Rugby Football club in the country.

[6] Promoted to commander on 3 April 1868,[7] he was posted to the ironclad battleship HMS Hercules in the Channel Squadron in November 1868 and was awarded the Royal Humane Society's silver medal for jumping overboard to rescue a man who had fallen from the rigging into the River Tagus.

[13] Following the succession of King Edward VII, he was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902,[14][15] and received the insignia in an investiture on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert outside Cowes on 15 August 1902,[16] the day before the fleet review held there to mark the coronation.