age ~82
from Sylmar, CA
1741
Ker was born at Dunblane, Perthshire, and was for a time schoolmaster at Crieff.
In 1717 he was appointed professor of Greek in King's College, Aberdeen, the first specialist teacher of the subject there, despite his admiration for the uncompromising Jacobitism Archibald Pitcairne....
Latin
Scottish poet
Military rank:Specialist
Preference:Forger
1741
jpg " John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe ", Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society ( c....
He served as Secretary of State for Scotland in the British Parliament from 1716 to 1725,
In Apr 1727 he was one of the six pall-bearers of Sir Isaac Newton's coffin at Westminster Abbey.
Fellow of the Royal Society