Richard Ker (MP)

Richard William Blackwood Ker (30 November 1850 – 19 June 1942) was an Irish landowner and MP.

For the Irish MP (1820s to 1850s), see Richard Ker.

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
  1. 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
  2. HANSARD 1803–2005 → Mr Richard Ker
  3. Brian Walker, 'Landowners and Parliamentary Elections in County Down, 1801–1921' P313 in Lindsay Proudfoot, 'Down – History and Society', Geography Publications, 1997
  4. Burke, Bernard (1879). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland.


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