Mark Kerr

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Mark Kerr (footballer)

Mark Kerr (born 2 March 1982) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Falkirk in the Scottish Championship. He is in his second spell at the club, having started his senior career there in 1998. He later played for Dundee United and Aberdeen before joining Asteras Tripoli in Greece. Returning to Scotland, Kerr played for Dunfermline Athletic, Dundee, Partick Thistle and Queen of the South before rejoining Falkirk in 2015. He made one appearance for the Scotland B team in 2005.

Club career

Falkirk

Kerr began his career with Falkirk, where he played from 1998 until 2001. He had joined Falkirk from Moodiesburn Boys Club as a sixteen-year-old, and progressed through the Youth Development scheme at Brockville, so was already well known to then-manager Ian McCall and his management team. McCall had been keeping tabs on the Scotland Under-21 player since he himself left Falkirk.

Kerr made his Falkirk debut towards the end of the 1998–99 season at the age of 17 against Clydebank. The following season he turned out seven times and scored his first goal in a 3–3 draw at Ayr United. For the next three seasons, he hardly missed a game for Falkirk and by the time he left, he had accumulated 125 appearances and scored nine times.

Mark Kerr (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr CB, CVO (26 September 1864 – 10 January 1944) was a Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer during World War I. Kerr was the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy in the early part of World War I, Commander-in-Chief of the British Adriatic Squadron in 1916 and 1917 and was involved in the work to create the Royal Air Force in late 1917 and early 1918.

Life

Mark Edward Frederic Kerr was born on 26 September 1864, the son of the Admiral Lord Frederic Kerr (1818-1896).

Kerr joined the Royal Navy in 1877 following education at Stubbington House School. He served in the Naval Brigade during the Egyptian War of 1882 and in Sudan in 1891 before becoming Naval Attache in Italy, Austria, Turkey and Greece in 1903. In 1913, he succeeded Vice Admiral Lionel Grand Tufnell as head of the British Naval Mission to Greece, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy, a post he retained until 1915. As commander of the Greek Navy at the outbreak of World War I, Kerr helped keep Greece out of the war. In 1914, while on leave from his duties as head of the Greek Navy, Kerr learned to fly, making him the first British flag officer to become a pilot. He was awarded his Aviator's Certificate no. 842 on 16 July 1914.