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Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr

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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Michael Ancram

Born: 7 July 1945

Died: 1 October 2024

Peerages

Earl of Ancram - 7 July 1945

13th Marquess of Lothian - 11 October 2004

Baron Kerr of Monteviot - 22 November 2010

Member of Privy Council - 30 December 1995

son of Peter Walter Francis Kerr

son of Antonella Reuss Newland

husband of Theresa Jane Fitzalan-Howard

brother of Ralph William Francis Kerr

Education

Ampleforth College, York

Christ Church, Oxford (- 1966)

Edinburgh University (- 1968)

Advocate

Appointments

Under Secretary of State for Social Security	1983	May 1987
Under Secretary of State for Wales	1990	April 1992
Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	1993	1994
Minister of State for Northern Ireland	1994	2 May 1997

Elections fought

18 June 1970	West Lothian	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,048	18.11
28 February 1974	Berwick & East Lothian	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,234	43.44
10 October 1974	Berwick & East Lothian	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,642	37.17
3 May 1979	Edinburgh South	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,986	39.74
9 June 1983	Edinburgh South	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,485	36.76
11 June 1987	Edinburgh South	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,352	33.81
9 April 1992	Devizes	Conservative & Unionist Party	39,090	53.33
1 May 1997	Devizes	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,710	42.82
7 June 2001	Devizes	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,159	47.25
5 May 2005	Devizes	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,253	48.54