Researching David Kerr
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 16333 people with the Kerr surname? In that year Kerr was ranked number 230 for popularity in the UK. |
The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Kerr on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Kerr and the Kerr Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kerr Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Kerr family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 27384 people with the Kerr surname in the UK? Kerr is now ranked number 184 for popularity in the UK. |
Kerr Family Tree Databases
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Kerr Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 48612 people with the Kerr surname in the USA? Kerr is ranked number 141 for popularity in the USA. |
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David Kerr (English politician)
David Leigh Kerr (25 March 1923 – 12 January 2009) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Kerr stood unsuccessfully for Streatham in the 1959 general election. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth Central from 1964 to 1970, when he stood down. A general practitioner before and after his period in parliament, he was active in the Socialist Medical Association as honorary secretary (1957–63) and then vice-president (1963–72).
He later served as a County Councillor in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire retiring from that role in 2001.
Source: David Kerr (English politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDavid Kerr (oncologist)
Professor David James Kerr (born 1956, Glasgow) is a British cancer researcher. His primary area of research is treatment and management of colorectal cancer.
He served as Chief Research Advisor, Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha, Qatar . Kerr is no longer Director, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute; His role as a Member of Supreme Council of Health, Qatar has been allocated to Lord Darzi.Kerr is Professor of Cancer Medicine and former Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also President-Elect for European Society for Medical Oncology (2009).
Kerr’s clinical research into adjuvant therapy of early stage colorectal cancer has contributed to saving thousands of lives over the past two decades.
Source: David Kerr (oncologist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDavid Kerr (nephrologist)
Professor David Nichol Sharp Kerr (1927–2014) was a British nephrologist.
Kerr was born on 27 December 1927 in Hackney, London, England.
He attended George Watson's Boys School, Edinburgh, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained his MB ChB with Honours in 1951. He subsequently undertook an MSc in Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin.
He undertook National Service as a surgeon-lieutenant with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1953 to 1955.
He worked at University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, where he rose to the position of professor of renal medicine, from 1968 to 1983, and Hammersmith Hospital, where he was both professor of renal medicine and dean from 1984 to 1992.
He served as editor of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1994 to 1998.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991, and delivered the 1968 Goulstonian lecture and the 1983 Lumleian lecture.
He died on 20 April 2014.
Source: David Kerr (nephrologist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kerr
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