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.

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Occupation: politician, spy
Born: August 8, 1673
Died: July 8, 1726

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Occupation: politician, spy
Born: August 8, 1673
Died: July 8, 1726