John W Ker

John Ker

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....

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Scottish poet

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John Ker

1673

1726

but having married Anna, younger daughter of Robert Ker, of Kersland, Ayrshire, whose only son Daniel Ker was killed at the Battle of Steenkerque in 1692, he assumed the name and arms of Ker in 1697, after buying the family estates from his wife's elder sister....

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John Ker

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

John Ker

1740

1804

Member of the Privy Council of Great Britain

Scottish scholar and academics

John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe " John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe " Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council ( 23 April 1740 – 1804 ) was a Scotland nobleman and bibliophile.

Knight of the Garter • Knight of the Thistle

Scottish politician

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