What is "kerby"

Kerby may refer to:

• Kerby (name)
• Kerby, California, a former settlement
• Kerby, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Kerby, an unincorporated community in Caledonia Township, Shiawassee County, Michigan
• Kerby House, a historic Greek Revival plantation house and historic district in Prairieville, Alabama

Kerby (d. Ipswich, 1546), whose Christian name is not known, was a man condemned by the Justices and executed by burning at the stake in Ipswich, Suffolk, for his Protestant beliefs, along with Roger Clarke. He is numbered among the Ipswich Martyrs. He died for denying the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation of the Host.

This was the first recorded execution by burning in Ipswich for such a cause, but was followed by several others over the ensuing twelve years, so that by the death of Queen Mary in 1558 there are said to have been seventy-seven persons in Ipswich under condemnation, who were afterwards released. Ipswich had witnessed the arrest of Thomas Bilney in May 1527 and was the birthplace and childhood home of Thomas Wolsey.

Kerby is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

• Kerby (Ipswich martyr) (died 1546)
• Edwin Kerby (1885–1971), Australian politician
• Harold Spencer Kerby (1893-1963), Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal who commanded British air forces in East Africa during the Second World War
• Henry Kerby (1914–1971), British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Trey Kerby (born 1984), American sports blogger
• William F. Kerby (1908–1989), chairman and CEO of Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of The Wall Street Journal
• William J. Kerby, (1870-1936) writer, sociologist and Catholic social worker

Given name:

• Kerby Raymundo (born 1981), Filipino basketball player
• Kerby A. Miller, American historian
• Kerby Farrell, (1913–1975), minor league baseball manager

Fictional characters:

• George and Marion Kerby, lead characters in the 1937 film Topper