Richard William Blackwood Ker (30 November 1850 – 19 June 1942) was an Irish landowner and MP.
Biography He was the son of David Stewart Ker and his wife, Anna Dorothea Blackwood. He was a captain in the 1st Royal Dragoons. He inherited his father's estates of Montalto and Portavo at BallynahinchA genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke (revised by A. C. Fox-Davies), Harrison & Sons, 1912, p. 368 on the death of his elder brother, David Alfred Ker.
He was appointed Sheriff of County Down for 1880–81 and was the Member of Parliament for County Down, 1884–1885 and for East Down, 1885–1890. HANSARD 1803–2005 → Mr Richard Ker He has been described as 'a substantial landowner from Ballynahinch.' Brian Walker, 'Landowners and Parliamentary Elections in County Down, 1801–1921' P313 in Lindsay Proudfoot, 'Down – History and Society', Geography Publications, 1997
He married Edith Louisa, the daughter of William Rose of Warwickshire and had at least one son, who was an officer in the army.
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