Thomas Caldwell Kerr

Thomas Caldwell Kerr (15 August 1887 – 25 June 1956) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Kerr was born at Stanthorpe, Queensland, the son of John Kerr and his wife Mary (née Caldwell). He was educated at Sherwood State School and from 1905 to 1915 he was a pearl sheller in the Dutch East Indies and Thursday Island. Later on he served as a public accountant and auditor with Wright, Kerr and Co. in Brisbane. in Brisbane and together had two sons and one daughter. One of their sons died in World War II while serving as a Spitfire Pilot in France. Kerr died in June 1956

Public life Kerr, a member of the UAP, and later the QPP and the Liberal Party, won the seat of Oxley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the 1943 by-election to replace Thomas Nimmo who had died in February of that year. He was to represent the seat until it was abolished before the 1950 state election.

He then moved to the new seat of Sherwood, holding it for six years until he retired from politics in 1956. He collapsed and died a month later in his Queen Street office.