Baron Teviot, of Burghclere in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1940 for Charles Kerr

Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot

Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...

, who had previously represented Montrose Burghs in the House of Commons

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, and served as Chief Whip

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 for the National Liberal Party

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, a government whip and Comptroller of the Household

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 in the National Government

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. He later served as Chairman of the National Liberals. Kerr was a grandson of Lord Charles Lennox Kerr, fourth son of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian

William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian

William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian KT was the son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian.He married, firstly, Lady Harriet Hobart-Hampden, a younger daughter of 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire , on 14 April 1793...

. the title is held by his only son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1968. He is a genealogist. As a descendant of the sixth Marquess of Lothian Lord Teviot is also in remainder to this Scottish peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Barons Teviot (1940)

• Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
  Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
  Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...
  
   (1874–1968)
• Charles John Kerr, 2nd Baron Teviot (b. 1934)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Charles Robert Kerr (b. 1971)