| Authorised form of name | Kerr; John (1824 - 1907) |
| Dates | 1824 - 1907 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 17 December 1824 |
| Place of death | Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 18/08/1907 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Education:
Village school, Skye; University of Glasgow. LLD
Career:
Studied under William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin (FRS 1851); ordained as a minister, Free Church of Scotland, but did not take up duties; Lecturer in Mathematics, Glasgow Free Church Training College for Teachers (1857-1901)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1890 |
| Age at election | 66 |
| Proposer | John Perry |
| Arnold William Reinold |
| Joseph Norman Lockyer |
| Robert Grant |
| John Gray McKendrick |
| John Thomson Bottomley |
| John Cleland |
| James Thomson |
| William Thomson |
| Charles Vernon Boys |
| John Hopkinson |
| George Fraser Fitzgerald |
| James Alfred Ewing |
| Richard Tetley Glazebrook |
| Oliver Joseph Lodge |
| Arthur William Rucker |
| Shelford Bidwell |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1898 |
| Relationships | Parents: Thomas Kerr, fish dealer.
Spouse: Marion, daughter of Colonel Balfour of Orkney. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp i-v signed by A Gr |
| Code | NA7122 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1890/06 | Kerr, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/4/727 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Reverend Dr John Kerr, Isaac Roberts, Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, Richard Thorne Thorne, and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon | 9 October 1890 |
| NLB/13/519 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Reverend Dr John Kerr, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 October 1896 |
| MC/17/188 | Letter from John Kerr, 113 Hil Street, Glasgow, to Professor [Arthur William] Rücker, [Secretary of The Royal Society] | 5 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/627 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Kerr, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 28 November 1898 |
| PP/23/17 | Printed proof, 'Experiments on a fundamental question in electro-optics: Reduction of relative retardations to absolute' by John Kerr | 1894 |
| MC/17/190 | Letter from John Kerr, 113 Hill Street, Glasgow, to Professor [Michael] Foster, [Secretary of The Royal Society] | 14 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/505 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr John Kerr, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 November 1898 |
| NLB/17/456 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lieutenant Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards | 3 November 1898 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |