# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-kerr-baron-kerr-of-tonaghmore
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:17:16.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-kerr-baron-kerr-of-tonaghmore"
name: "Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore"
slug: "brian-kerr-baron-kerr-of-tonaghmore"
description: "Brian Francis Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, was a Northern Irish barrister and a senior judge. He held office as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and then as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. In 2009, he was the last person to receive a law life peerage under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. At the time of his retirement on 30 September 2020, he was the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court and the court's last original member."
tagline: "Northern Irish senior judge (1948–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lord-Kerr_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1948-02-22"
deathDate: "2020-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.619044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kerr%2C_Baron_Kerr_of_Tonaghmore"
    title: "Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kerr%2C_Baron_Kerr_of_Tonaghmore"
    title: "Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kerr_(baron_Kerr_de_Tonaghmore)"
    title: "Brian Kerr (baron Kerr de Tonaghmore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kerr%2C_An_Tiarna_Kerr_den_Tamhnach_Mh%C3%B3r"
    title: "Brian Kerr, An Tiarna Kerr den Tamhnach Mhór"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kerr%2C_Baron_Kerr_of_Tonaghmore"
    title: "Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q912458"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump