page_title: Lord Mark Kerr (British Army officer)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Lord Mark Kerr (British Army officer) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: The old St Mary Abbots Church , Kensington , London shortly for it was demolished to make way for the current church.
context_page_description: Lord Mark Kerr was a Scottish-born professional soldier, who served in the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the Quadruple Alliance. He reached the rank of General in the British Army, and held a number of important administration posts, including Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
context_section_description: Lord Mark Kerr was born in 1676, fourth son of Robert Kerr, 1st Marquis of Lothian (1636-1703) and his wife, Jean Campbell (d. 1700), daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. Through their relationship with Argyll, the family was closely associated with Presbyterian and Whig interests and supported the 1688 Glorious Revolution.
  He never married and died in London on 2 February, 1752. He was buried in St Mary Abbots, Kensington, the memorial being lost when the church was rebuilt in 1878.
caption: Kerr was buried in St Mary Abbots, Kensington, shown here in 1869, shortly before its demolition
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