Richard Ker (MP)
Richard William Blackwood Ker (1850 – 19 June 1942) was an Irish landowner and MP.
He was the son of David Stewart Ker and his wife, Anna Dorothea Blackwood. He was a captain in the 1st Royal Dragoons. He inherited his father's estates of Montalto and Portavo at Ballynahinch[1] on the death of his elder brother, David Alfred Ker.
He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1880-81 and was the Member of Parliament for County Down, 1884–1885 and for East Down, 1885–1890.[2] He has been described as 'a substantial landowner from Ballynahinch.' [3]
He married Edith Louisa, the daughter of William Rose of Warwickshire and had at least one son, who was an officer in the army.[4]
References[]
- ^ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke (revised by A. C. Fox-Davies), Harrison & Sons, 1912, p. 368
- ^ HANSARD 1803–2005 → Mr Richard Ker
- ^ Brian Walker, 'Landowners and Parliamentary Elections in County Down, 1801-1921' P313 in Lindsay Proudfoot, 'Down - History and Society', Geography Publications, 1997
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1879). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Ker
- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.
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