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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bayne, Thomas Wilson (1901). "Ker, John (d.1741)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Simpson, John M. "Ker, John, first duke of Roxburghe (c.1680–1741)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15450.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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