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WILLIAM KER (c. 16051675)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 19 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WILLIAM KER (c. 16051675) , who thus became 3rd
earl
  of
Lothian
 , signed the Scottish national covenant in 1638 and marched with the Scots into England in 1640, being present when the English were routed at Newburn, after which he became
governor
  of Newcastle-on-Tyne. During the Civil War he was
prominent rather as a politician than as a soldier; he became a Scottish secretary of state in 1649, and was one of the commissioners who visited Charles II. at Breda in 165o. He died at Newbattle Abbey, near Edinburgh, in October 167 5. William's eldest son Robert, the 4th
earl
  (1636-1703), supported the Revolution of 1688 and served William III. in several capacities; he became 3rd earl of Ancrum on the death of his uncle Charles in 169o, and was created marquess of
Lothian
  in 1701. His eldest son William, the 2nd marquess (c. 1662-1722), who had been a Scottish peer as Lord Jedburgh since 1692, was a supporter of the union with England. His son William, the 3rd marquess (c. 1690-1767),was the father of William
Henry
 , the 4th marquess, who was wounded at Fontenoy and was present at Culloden. He was a member of
parliament
  for some years and had reached the rank of general in the army when he died at Bath on the 12th of April 1775. His grandson William, the 6th marquess (1763-1824), married Henrietta (1762-18o5), daughter and heiress of John
Hobart
 , 2nd earl of Buckinghamshire, thus bringing Blickling
Hall
  and the Norfolk estates of the Hobarts into the Kerr family. In 1821 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Ker and he died on the 27th of April 1824. In 1900 Robert Schomberg Kerr (b. 1874) succeeded his father, Schomberg Henry, the 9th marquess (1833-1900), as loth marquess of Lothian.


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