John Savill Vaizey, Dictionary of National Biography… (1892)
“ Ker was an ardent advocate of popular education, and of the diffusion of literature and art. Charles Knight, in ‘Passages of a Working Life,’ ii. 120, 121, says that he was ‘the most fertile in projects of any member of the committee’ of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and suggested many publishing schemes apart from the society. ”
John Savill Vaizey, Dictionary of National Biography… (1892)
“ He was a member of the public records commission, and in 1833 he was appointed one of the royal commissioners to report upon the expediency of digesting the criminal law and consolidating the other branches of the statute law. Various bills for the amendment of the criminal law were founded on the reports of the commission. In 1845, with Messrs. Hayes and Christie, Ker drew for Lord-chancellor Lyndhurst a short bill which, when passed into an act (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) , was a most valuable amendment of the law of real property. ”
