Date of birth 21 March 1852 Name William Ker Place of birth Scotland Role Footballer | Years Team Died January 20, 1911 1872-1873 Scotland | |
Date of death 20 January 1911(1911-01-20) (aged 58) | ||
William Ker (1852–1925) was a Scottish footballer who played in the first ever international football match for Scotland against England in 1872.
Ker also played for Scotland against England the following year. He played for Scottish amateur club Queen's Park.
He was the son of the renowned physicist Rev John Kerr, discoverer of the Kerr effect and revised the spelling of his surname as a young man to Ker. He emigrated to Canada in 1873 and later lived in Pennsylvania, Washington and finally Washington DC, where he died.
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