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John Ker, Scottish spy (died 1726)
John Ker, Scottish spy (died 1726)
John Ker, Scottish spy (died 1726)
John Ker
Scottish spy during the Jacobite risings (1673–1726)
- Born
- 1673
John Ker, 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.