Lord Mark Kerr (British Army officer, born 1817)

General
Lord Mark Kerr
GCB
General Lord Mark Kerr in India Kit, equestrian portrait by Charles Lutyens, 1858
Born15 December 1817
Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Scotland
Died17 May 1900(1900-05-17) (aged 82)
London
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch
 British Army
Rank
General
Units20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
Commands13th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Light Infantry
Poona Division of the Bombay Army
Conflicts
Crimean War
Indian Rebellion
AwardsGCB, CB

General Lord Mark Ralph George Kerr GCB (15 December 1817 – 17 May 1900) was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in India.

Background

Kerr was born in his ancestral home (Newbattle Abbey), in Midlothian, Scotland in 1817; the son of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian and his second wife Lady Harriet Scott (daughter of the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch). He was one of 12 Kerr siblings from two mothers.

Lord Mark Kerr (standing, in dress uniform) with the Earl and Countess of Elgin and Lady Alice Lambton, the countess' younger sister (seated left) in 1848. Elgin was Governor General of Canada at the time.

Military career

Kerr was commissioned (by purchase) into the army on 19 June 1835 as an Ensign in the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot and served in the Crimean War and various campaigns in India, including the Indian Mutiny. From 1842 to 1853 Kerr served with his regiment, which was a reserve battalion stationed in Bermuda and Canada. His military career summary is as follows:

The Kerr family's association with the 13th Light Infantry was a longstanding one, as an earlier Lord Mark Kerr had a colonelcy in the regiment in its early years.

He published a journal of his military experiences and travels.

Death

He died a bachelor in London in 1900.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lord Mark Ralph George Kerr - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Page 179 - Army lists 1840 - British Military lists". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army Lists. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "New annual army list, and militia list 1858". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army Lists. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Chapter II – Kunwar Singh and Lord Mark Kerr". www.ibiblio.org. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Infantry I: Regiments of Foot 1st through 50th". British Regiments in Canada. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  6. ↑ Luscombe, Stephen. "The British Empire, Imperialism, Colonialism, Colonies". www.britishempire.co.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Page 195 - New annual army list 1848". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army Lists. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  8. ↑ "Somerset Light Infantry". www.lightinfantry.me.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "Page 243 New annual army list, and militia list 1858". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army Lists. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  10. ↑ "General Lord Mark Kerr in India Kit | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  11. ↑ Kaye, Sir John; Malleson, Colonel (2013). The History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58: Vol 4. Andrews UK Limited. pp. 322–327. ISBN 9781781510094.
  12. ↑ "Page 288, New annual army list, militia list, and Indian civil service list 1880". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army List. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  13. ↑ "Page 245 - New annual army list, militia list, yeomanry cavalry list, and Indian civil service list 1881". digital.nls.uk. Hart's Army List. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  14. ↑ Kerr, Mark Ralph George (1889). Journals of Lord Mark Kerr, 1841-1889. London: Printed for private circulation.
  15. ↑ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  16. ↑ "Cracroft's Peerage". Retrieved 12 September 2019.