Lord Mark Kerr (baptised 1 April 1676 – 2 February 1752) 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. Life 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. Career In 1696, Kerr was commissioned Captain in 'McGill's Regiment of Foot;' this was disbanded in 1697 following the Treaty of Ryswick and he transferred to Lord Jedburgh's Dragoons, a regiment owned by his eldest brother. When the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1702, he joined George Macartney's Regiment of Foot, which served in Flanders; in January 1706, he became Colonel of a newly recruited unit, Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment of Foot. Sent to Spain to support the Hapsburg candidate, Archduke Charles, it fought in the April, 1707 Battle of Almansa. The Anglo-Portuguese infantry were left isolated when their cavalry was routed and Kerr was wounded, while his regiment suffered severe losses. With the bulk of the surviving infantry, they retreated in good order to a defensive position 8 miles/12 kilometres from the battlefield. Out of ammunition, food and water, they surrendered the next day and the opposing commander, the Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England, invited the captured officers to dinner. Their losses at Almansa meant the regiment was reformed in 1709 and disbanded two years later, as part of the reductions passed by the Tory government installed after the 1710 British General Election. Kerr was promoted Brigadier-General, but his juniors officers placed on half-pay; several of these, including Philip Lockhart and John Nairne, later joined the 1715 Jacobite Rising. Following the death of Thomas Farrington in October 1712, Kerr became Colonel of his regiment, Farrington's, later 29th Foot; this was sent to Gibraltar, where it remained for the next 30 years. Kerr may