Lady Anne Cecil Kerr

A GREAT SOCIAL WORKER Lady Anne Cecil Kerr, who died on Saturday, August 9, and whose funeral took place on Wednesday, will be long remembered for her prominence as a social worker, and for her life-long and unremitting labours in the interests of the poor. The regret felt by those who were closely associated with her is being shared by many.
Born in 1883, she was the eldest daughter of Major-General Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, K.C.B., who died in 1916, and her mother was Lady Ann FitzAlan Howard. A sister of the 1 1th Marquess of Lothian, she was granted, with her sisters, the rank and precedence of the daughter of a Marquess in 1930. A number of books were written by Lady Anne, and they inalude the life of her ancestor, the Venerable Philip Howard, the martyr, Earl of Arundel, and of Teresa Higginson. She was also an artist, and sculptured the statue of St. David in the chapel of St. David's Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors at Ealing, in which home she took great interest.
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