John Ker

For other uses, see John Ker (disambiguation).

John Ker, born John Crawford
Born(1673-08-08)8 August 1673
Crawfurdland, Ayrshire Scotland
Died8 July 1726(1726-07-08) (aged 52)
King's Bench Prison, London
Buried
St George the Martyr, Southwark

John Ker (8 August 1673 – 8 July 1726), born John Crawford in Crawfurdland, Ayrshire, was a Scots Presbyterian linked with Cameronian radicals who between 1705 and 1709 acted as a government informer against the Jacobites. Dogged by financial issues most of his life, he died in King's Bench Prison in 1726.

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