George Cochrane Kerr - another noteworthy artist & a descendent in the 'Fife Drysdales' family line

[Ronald Drysdale]

A grandson of Sir William Drysdale of Pittenchar

"George Cochrane Kerr was a marine painter in oil and watercolour of coastal and shipping scenes, who lived in London and variously in Kent at Ramsgate, Gillingham and Rochester. His work was exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Institute, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and 50 pictures at the Fine Art Society. Work in public collections include the National Maritime Museum and the Russell Cotes Gallery and Museum Bournemouth"

Some of his work:

How he fits into the family tree;

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[Ronald Drysdale]

Artistic skills seem the norm in this branch of the family - also a spy!

Frances Dorothy Beresford Maule Kerr - Great grand-daughter of Sir William Drysdale

Dorothy B. M. Kerr
https://robbins.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/reclaiming_shalott/s/v...

https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auction/Lot/77-sketchbooks/?lot=750...
Frances Dorothy Beresford Maule Kerr married William Arthur Griffiths.

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........ Dorothy Beresford Maule Kerr  - Kerr was part of a well-to-do military family—her sitters include captains and colonels, and her descendents include Royal Marine pilot Guy Beresford Kerr 'Griff' Griffiths (who gained notoriety as a prisoner of war for using his artistic skills to fake sketches and forge documents to misinform Nazi intelligence).

Guy Beresford Kerr Griffiths - Great great grandson of Sir William Drysdale

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-...

https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/guy-griffiths-royal-marine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Griffiths

https://www.famousfix.com/topic/guy-griffiths-6621892

https://hushkit.net/2024/01/13/was-the-ww2-westland-wildcat-a-super...

How they fit into the family tree

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