Russell Whiston Kerr was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician.

Kerr was educated at the Shore School, Sydney

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, Sydney Church of England

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 Grammar School

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 and Sydney University. He served with the Pathfinder Force of the Royal Air Force

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 during World War II

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. He became a director of the Town and Country Planning Association

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 and an air charter executive. He was a national executive member of the Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians

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 from 1964.

Kerr contested Horsham

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 in 1951, Merton and Morden

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 in 1959 and Preston North

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 in 1964.

He was Member of Parliament

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 for Feltham

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 from 1966 to 1974, and for Feltham and Heston from 1974 to 1983. He lost his seat in that year's landslide defeat for Labour, to the Conservative

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 Patrick Ground

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.

In 1960 Kerr married Anne Kerr, Member of Parliament for Rochester and Chatham

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from 1964 to 1970. He was found dead in his car in Twickenham, believed to have suffered a stroke.