A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kerr, George Collier
KERR. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
George Collier Kerr entered the Navy in 1831; passed his examination 15 Feb. 1839; and after serving for nearly three years as Mate of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was made Lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1845, into the Plover surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Collinson, with whom he returned home from the East Indies and was paid off at the close of 1846.