Background
Anne Dorothy Taggart was born in 1914.
governor judge General of Australia
Anne Dorothy Taggart was born in 1914.
University of Paris; University of Sydney.
She was known as Nancy to her friends. She was an honours graduate from the University of Sydney. In 1935 she was awarded a French Government travelling scholarship and gained her Master of Arts from the Sorbonne, Paris.
She appeared as an official French-English interpreter at more than 30 international conferences over ten years, including Colombo Plan meetings
On one occasion she interpreted for Jawaharlal Nehru at a United Nations human rights seminar in New Delhi. She was also fluent in German.
He was Judge of the New South Wales District Court and Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions. At one time he had made a bid for Liberal Party preselection for the federal seat of Warringah.
After the end of World World War II, she acted as an interpreter for the Department of External Affairs for visiting French delegations.
Her marriage to Robson was dissolved in early 1975. lieutenant was reported that "strings had been pulled" to ensure her quick divorce from Robson and an avoidance of publicity. Lady Anne Kerr reinstated the practice.
She was privy to her husband"s thoughts and anxieties as the 1975 constitutional crisis developed, but in his autobiography Matters for Judgement (1978) Sir John Kerr strongly denied she had either dissuaded him from warning the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam that he was going to dismiss him, or that she herself had a political axe to grind.
The Kerrs moved to England in 1977 after the widespread public criticism of his acceptance of the ambassadorship to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a post he was forced to relinquish before taking it up. Her memoirs, Lanterns Over Pinchgut, describe her extensive international experience.
Lady Kerr died in 1997 after a long battle with cancer.
In 1966 she was the first Australian to become a member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters.
