Stanley Kerr

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Stanley Elphinstone Kerr was an American missionary, clinical biochemist and educator. He was the father of Malcolm Kerr, former president of the American University of Beirut and the grandfather of NBA player Steve Kerr

A clinical biochemist at Walter Reed Hospital, he left the United States in 1919 to serve as a volunteer for Near East Relief. He began his service in Aleppo during an Armenian refugee crisis when many of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide had escaped.He worked as a medical and sanitary officer. He also worked to recover Armenian children from the Kurdish and Turkoman families into which they had been forced. He published The Lions of Marash that describe his work there.