| Tom Kerr | |
| Constituency Am1: | Oxley |
| Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start1: | 17 April 1943 |
| Term End1: | 29 April 1950 |
| Predecessor1: | Thomas Nimmo |
| Successor1: | Seat abolished |
| Constituency Am2: | Sherwood |
| Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative |
| Term Start2: | 29 April 1950 |
| Term End2: | 19 May 1956 |
| Predecessor2: | New seat |
| Successor2: | John Herbert |
| Birth Date: | 15 August 1887 |
| Birth Place: | Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia |
| Death Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Birthname: | Thomas Caldwell Kerr |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Party: | Liberal Party |
| Otherparty: | UAP, QPP |
| Spouse: | Lillian Berry (m.1919 d.1954) |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
Thomas Caldwell Kerr (15 August 1887 – 25 June 1956) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
Kerr was born at Stanthorpe, Queensland, the son of John Kerr and his wife Mary (née Caldwell). He was educated at Sherwood State School and from 1905 to 1915 was a pearl sheller in the Dutch East Indies and Thursday Island. Later on he was a public accountant and auditor with Wright, Kerr and Co. in Brisbane.[1]
He served in the First Australian Imperial Force in World War I, being based with the 31st Infantry Battalion.[1]
On 8 November 1919 he married Lillian Violet Berry [1] (died 1954)[2] in Brisbane and together had two sons and one daughter. One of their sons died in World War II while serving as a Spitfire Pilot in France. Kerr died in June 1956.[1] He was cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium and his ashes are in the columbarium wall at St Matthew's Anglican Church, Sherwood.[3]
Kerr, a member of the UAP, and later the QPP and the Liberal Party, won the seat of Oxley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the 1943 by-election to replace Thomas Nimmo who had died in February of that year. He was to represent the seat until it was abolished before the 1950 state election.[1]
He then moved to the new seat of Sherwood, holding it for six years until he retired from politics in 1956.[1] He collapsed and died a month later in his Queen Street office.
