John Ker

John Ker, born John Crawford
Born8 August 1673
Crawfurdland, Ayrshire Scotland
Died8 July 1726
King's Bench Prison, London
Buried

John Ker (8 August 1673 – 8 July 1726), 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.