Anne Kerr

Anne Patricia Kerr (née Bersey; 24 March 1925 – 29 July 1973) was a British Labour Party politician who was elected for two successive terms as a Member of Parliament. Early life Born in Putney into a Methodist family, she spent most of her childhood in west London, attending St Paul's Girls School. She was evacuated to Budleigh Salterton in Devon, during the Second World War, and later joined the Women's Royal Naval Service. In 1944 she married James Doran Clark (subsequently TV and film scriptwriter James Doran) and in 1945 they had a son, Paddy. They were divorced in 1952. Before entering politics she was an actress and television interviewer, using the name Anne Doran. She was elected in Putney at the 1958 London County Council election as Anne Clark, and held her seat until the council was abolished in 1965. She was an ardent opponent of capital punishment, a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was on the Committee of 100 set up by Bertrand Russell in 1960 to oppose nuclear weapons. She was married again in 1960 to fellow Labour politician Russell Kerr, who became MP for Feltham in 1966. Parliamentary career