About William Kerr
Lived 1873 – 1960 (aged 86–87). William Kerr was an anglican priest.
William Shaw Kerr (1873 - 2 February 1960) was an Irish Anglican bishop, the first Bishop of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland.
Kerr was born in 1873 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1897, his first post was a curacy at Lurgan. He was then Rector of Banbridge, Archdeacon of Dromore and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Dean of Belfast. He was elected Bishop of Down and Dromore on 9 December 1944 and consecrated on 25 January 1945. He resigned on 31 July 1955 and died on 2 February 1960.
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Irish bishop (1873–1960)
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William Kerr was born in 1873.
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William Kerr died in 1960.
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William Kerr was an anglican priest.
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