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Exceptions to this were those better-off pupils who had passed the entry tests for, and were going to, Glasgow fee-paying schools like Hutchesons' Grammar (Hutchie), Glasgow High, Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow Academy, St. Aloysuis' College, Notre Dame, Park and Laurel Bank etc.
Keir was born in Northumberland to William Keir and Elizabeth (Craig) Keir; his Scottish father was a Presbyterian minister, and moved several times during Keir's childhood, from Bellingham to Newcastle, Birkenhead, and finally Glasgow, where Keir attended the independent school, Glasgow Academy.
He attended the Glasgow Academy and then continued his education at the University of Glasgow with Thomas Anderson and then went to study in Germany at the University of Tübingen with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig where his doctoral thesis was entitled Investigations in the Toluic and Nitrotoluic Acids.
Kerr was educated first by Messrs Wren and Gurney, later going to the Glasgow Academy (1885-1887).