Surname: Kier Forename(s): Peter d. 1834. Nationality: Scottish.
Poet and clockmaker from Falkirk. His son, Robert, wrote a history of Falkirk and
died in 1827. Biographical information: the headnote to Keir’s poem in Chambers’s (19 November 1836), which is an elegy for his son; Ian Scott, Clocking a golden age for masters of the time in Falkirk,The Falkirk Herald, 24 October 2016. (AC)