Stuart McKerrow

William Stuart McKerrow (28 June 1922, Glasgow – 12 June 2004, Oxford) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, known as a leading expert on the Palaeozoic.

Biography After primary school education at The Glasgow Academy, W. Stuart McKerrow became a boarding student at Derbyshire's Abbotsholme School, During the late 1950s McKerrow began collaborating with geologists in the US and Canada and became an expert on the geological links across the Atlantic during the Palaeozoic. and the co-editor, with Christopher R. Scotese, of the book Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography (1990, Geological Society of London). With F. Brian Atkins (1937–2013), he published Isle of Arran: A Field Guide for Students of Geology (1989, Geologists' Association).

McKerrow was a strong advocate for the preservation of Kirtlington Quarry for use by scientists and the general public. He served as an Elder of the Presbyterian Church and often preached at St Columba's United Reformed Church, Oxford. and in 1998 the Geological Society of Glasgow's T. Neville George Medal.

In 1949 he married Jean Kirstine Stark Brown, a Glasgow native with a degree in domestic science from The Queen's College in Glasgow. They first met in Portsmouth during WW II. The couple had three sons and three grandchildren.

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