| 词条 | Peter Kerr-Smiley |
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Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley (22 February 1879 – 23 June 1943) was a Northern Irish Member of Parliament. He was born at Larne as Peter Kerr Smiley, the second son of Sir Hugh Smiley, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1] He commissioned a second lieutenant in the 21st Lancers on 5 May 1900,[2] promoted to lieutenant on 15 December 1900,[3] and from 1901 to 1902 served on the staff during the Second Boer War in South Africa. After the end of hostilities in May 1902, he left Cape Town the following month.[4] He resigned his commission in 1905,[5] but later reached the rank of Major in the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. In 1905 he adopted the surname of Kerr-Smiley, and the same year married Maud Simpson, daughter of Ernest L. Simpson, a British shipbuilder, and sister of Ernest Aldrich Simpson. They had two children:
Kerr-Smiley was a Unionist in politics, and Chairman of the Belfast newspaper The Northern Whig. He unsuccessfully stood for South Down at the General Election of 1906, but was elected for North Antrim in January 1910 and represented the constituency until 1922. Kerr-Smiley's London house was at 31 Belgrave Square, and he was a member of the Carlton Club, the Marlborough Club and the Cavalry Club. References
1. ^{{acad|id=SMLY899PK|name=Smiley (post Kerr-Smiley), Peter Kerr}} 2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27189|page=2848|date=4 May 1900}} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27262|page=4|date=1 January 1901}} 4. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=The Army in South Africa - The return of the Troops |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=2 July 1902 |page_number=11 |issue=36809}} 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27800|page=3939|date=2 June 1905}} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for North Antrim | years = 1910–1922 }}{{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kerr-Smiley, Peter}}{{Ireland-UK-MP-stub}} 11 : 1879 births|1943 deaths|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922)|UK MPs 1910–18|UK MPs 1918–22|People educated at Eton College|Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge|21st Lancers officers|Royal Ulster Rifles officers|British Army personnel of the Second Boer War|Irish Unionist Party MPs |
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