David Ker

Born in Bowden, Cheshire, in 1842, David Ker was a British author of Scots ancestry who also worked as a journalist. Sources describe him as a special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and one reference notes that he served with the Russian army in the 1870s while reporting for both the Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald.

Ker wrote a large amount of fiction for boys, with stories often set in distant or contested regions. His known works include The Boy Slave in Bokhara, Lost Among White Africans, O'er Tartar Deserts, and Ilderim the Afghan. Several of his stories appeared in periodicals such as Boy's Own Paper, and his adventure fiction is especially remembered for its Central Asian settings.

He married Bertha Mary Haslam in 1880, apparently had no children, and had settled in Surrey by the turn of the twentieth century. He died at Hindhead, Surrey, on 9 August 1914.