Robert Kerr
1757–1813
Scientific writer and translator. Entered the medical profession as surgeon to the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital, but left to manage a paper mill. After the failure of this venture, occupied himself with historical and biographical work.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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