Harriet Roberta Kerr

Harriet Roberta Kerr (1859–1940) was a British suffragette and office manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

Early life Kerr was born in 1859 in Wanstead, Essex. She became interested in women's rights and suffrage because of her father's prejudice against women. In 1906, she was appointed as the paid office manager of the national headquarters of the WSPU in Clement's Inn, London, on the agreement that her work would be solely administrative. She oversaw volunteers and mentored new recruits such as Charlotte Marsh. She was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour for conspiracy to do wilful damage to property, even though she had not yet marched in a deputation or participated in any militant action. then in October 1913 was rearrested, once again at the WSPU offices. During the rearrest of Kerr and Sanders, Annie Ford, Emma Birchell and Alice Virtue tried to stop the police from taking them and were also arrested. They were charged with obstructing the police and fined 40 shillings each. Due to the impact on her physical health, Kerr retired from the suffrage campaign.

Kerr died in 1940 in Hampshire.