Andrew Taylor Kerr (10 November 1837 – 15 November 1907) was an Australian politician. He was born at Green Swamp near

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to pastoralist Andrew Kerr and Elizabeth Livingstone. He worked on his father's station near

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, which he inherited with his sister on his father's death in 1866. On 18 March 1863 he married Isabel Helen Dunbar Johnson, with whom he had six children. He sold his property in 1877. In 1879 he was elected to the

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for

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, serving until 1882. In 1888 he was appointed to the

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, where he remained until his death at

in 1907.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kerr, Andrew 1837 births 1907 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians