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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = <br />
| image = RS Rait Kerr G&P 2012.jpg<br />
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| country = Ireland<br />
| full_name = Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr<br />
| birth_date = 13 April 1891<br />
| birth_place = [[Bray, County Wicklow|Bray]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|4|7|1891|4|13|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Constantine Bay]], [[Cornwall]], England<br />
| nickname = <br />
| family =<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling =<br />
| role = <br />
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = 1913/14&ndash;1920/21<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 6<br />
| runs1 = 89<br />
| bat avg1 = 7.41<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 24<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–<br />
| date = 3 January<br />
| year = 2022<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19533.html Cricinfo<br />
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[[Colonel]] '''Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MC}} (13 April 1891 – 7 April 1961) was an [[Ireland|Irish-born]] [[cricketer]] and sporting [[Business administration|administrator]].<br />
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Rait Kerr was born in [[Bray, Ireland]] third son of [[Sylvester Rait Kerr]] of Rathmoyle, Edenderry King's Co and led a distinguished army career. He was educated at [[Rugby School|Rugby]]. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1910 and joined the [[Royal Engineers]]. By 1916 he had been promoted to temporary captain, and by 1917 he was acting major and had been awarded the [[Military Cross]] and the [[Distinguished Service Order|D.S.O.]]<br />
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As a cricketer, he played in six first-class matches. Five of these were for the Europeans in India between 1913–14 and 1920–21, while the other came after a decade's absence from first-class cricket when he appeared for the <!--British--> Army against Oxford University in 1931.<br />
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He succeeded [[William Findlay (cricketer, born 1880)|William Findlay]] as Secretary of the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] in 1936 and he retired in 1952. His daughter [[Diana Rait Kerr]] became the first Curator of the MCC and she later became one of the first elected lady members of the club in 1999.<br />
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Colonel Rait Kerr died at [[Constantine Bay]] in [[Cornwall]], aged 69.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*''A History of Royal Engineers Cricket 1862-1924'', Institute of Royal Engineers, 1925.<br />
*''The laws of cricket: Their history and growth'', Longmans, Green & Co, 1950.<br />
*''Cricket Umpiring and Scoring'', Phoenix House, 1964.<br />
*''Cricket Umpiring and Scoring'' - 3rd Revised edition, with Thomas Edward Smith, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1969.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/19533.html Rowan Rait Kerr] at Cricinfo<br />
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14390/14390.html Rowan Rait Kerr] at Cricket Archive<br />
* {{cite TIWW |article=Rait Kerr, Captain Rowan Scrope|page=214 }}<br />
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