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5 unusual facts about John Kerr


Charles Drace-Francis

As a result of this the Foreign Office's Permanent Under Secretary John Kerr initiated an inquiry with the aim of identifying the source of the leak.

John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian

Lord Lothian married Lady Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, in 1831.

John Kerr, Sr.

At the time of his death, Kerr was coaching for Triangle Futbol Club in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Kerr briefly coached the boys' team at Hilton Head High School in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in the mid-2000s.

Sydney University Labor Club

The 1939 constitution of the club was written by future governor-general John Kerr.


King–Byng Affair

The King–Byng Affair was the most controversial use of a governor general's reserve powers until the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, in which the Governor-General of Australia, John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

Province of Bumbunga

In November, 1975, the Australian Labor Party government of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed under controversial circumstances, by Governor-General John Kerr.


see also

Anne Kerr

Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr (1914–1997), Australian interpreter, second wife of the Governor-General of Australia, John Kerr

Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr

She was privy to her husband's thoughts and anxieties as the 1975 constitutional crisis developed, but in his autobiography Matters for Judgement (1978) Sir John Kerr strongly denied she had either dissuaded him from warning the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam that he was going to dismiss him, or that she herself had a political axe to grind.

Caswell County, North Carolina

Caswell County produced many political leaders, including Bartlett Yancey, Jr., Archibald Debow Murphey, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, Bedford Brown, Calvin Graves, John Kerr, Jacob Thompson, and others.

Thirroul Railway Depot

In 1918 John Kerr Cummins, then a 34 year old fireman stationed at Thirroul was injured when he was operating the turntable for his train at Macdonaldtown in Sydney.