Fergus Gordon Thomson Kerr was born on 16 July 1931 and is a Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican province.
10 Facts About Fergus Kerr
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Fergus Kerr has published significantly on a wide range of subjects, but is famous particularly for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Aquinas.
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Fergus Kerr was a student of Donald M MacKinnon, John Holloway, and Cornelius Ernst.
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In service to the English Dominican province, Fergus Kerr was Prior at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford from 1969 to 1978.
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Fergus Kerr served as the Director of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford and is the editor of New Blackfriars, the bimonthly journal of the English Dominicans.
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Currently, Fergus Kerr is affiliated with Blackfriars, Edinburgh, where he lives and works.
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Fergus Kerr holds an honorary fellowship in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and has a role in the university's Catholic chaplaincy team.
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Fergus Kerr is an Honorary Professor of St Andrews University, a distinction he has held since 2005.
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Fergus Kerr belongs to the Catholic Theological Society of Great Britain, of which he was president from 1992 to 1994.
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Fergus Kerr was awarded an Honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in December 2019.