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Eric Stair-Kerr
A Scottish historian with a strong feel for the country's royal past, he wrote clear, accessible books that bring places like Stirling Castle vividly to life. His surviving work is slender, but it has kept his name alive among readers of Scottish history.
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Stirling Castle, its place in Scottish history
by Eric Stair-Kerr
About the author
Eric Stair-Kerr was a Scottish writer and historian from Edinburgh. Contemporary and archival records identify him as a native of the city, educated at Merchiston Castle School and at the University of Edinburgh, where he took an M.A.; the title page of Stirling Castle: its place in Scottish history also credits him with Oxford study and fellowship in the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
He is chiefly known for Stirling Castle: its place in Scottish history, published in 1913, a book that traces the castle's military, political, and royal importance in Scotland. The same title page notes an earlier work, Scotland Under James IV, showing his particular interest in late medieval and early modern Scottish history.
Stair-Kerr died young in 1914, at the age of 30, in Newtonmore, Highland. Because his career was cut short, only a small body of work survives, but his writing still appeals to readers who enjoy Scottish castles, kings and queens, and the stories woven through historic places.