John Kerr (minister)

John Kerr FRSE LLD (1852-1920) was a Scottish minister, sportsman and sports author.

He was born in Trohoughton in Dumfriesshire on 29 May 1852, one of eleven children to David K. Kerr and his wife, Mary Bell.

In 1878 he transferred to Dirleton Kirk in East Lothian, where he remained for the rest of his life.

His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington, Charles Alfred Cooper, and H. A. Webster.

Their children included Alec Seton Kerr, John Randolph Kerr, and daughters, Edith Katherine, Constance Ursula, Marie and Winifred Violet.