John Kerr

(1791 c.-1881)

LBT ID: JoKerr1881	B/BAP: 1791 DIED: 1881-02
SOURCES: The Law Times (21 May 1859) 118; George Pitt-Lewis, Commissioner Kerr, an Individuality (1903) 1-9
Of Frisky Hall near Glasgow; he was Writer to the Signet and a book collector, a member of the Maitland Society, Camden Society, and Felow of the Society of Antiquaries. His son Robert Malcom Kerr married a daughter of the publisher Charles Knight.
REFERENCES TO John Kerr: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 24