Hunter

JOSEPH HUNTER: (1783-1861), antiquary, was born at Sheffield on 6 February 1783, being the son of Michael Hunter, who was engaged in the cutlery business. His mother dying while he was quite young, he was placed under the guardship of Joseph Evans, a Presbyterian minister, who sent him to school near Sheffield, where he received the rudiments of a classical education, while he devoted all his spare time to antiquarian studies and to the collection of church notes, filling many volumes, still in existence, with copies of monumental inscriptions, coats of arms, and the like. He was removed in 1809 … Read more

ROBERT HUNTER: (d. 1734), Governor of New York and Jamaica, belonged to the family of Hunter of Hunterstin, Ayrshire (See Burke, “Landed Gentry,” 1886 ed.) Paterson describes him as one of the children of James Hunter, who was a son of the laird of that ilk, and married Margaret, daughter of the Rev. John Spalding of Dreghorn. It appears probable that Hunter was the Robert Hunter, esquire, appointed Mayor of Brigadier-General Charles Ross’s dragoons (5th royal Irish Dragoons) on 13 April 1698. Hunter was appointed Governor of New York, and sailed with the refugees early in 1710. In November of … Read more

B114 EDWARD HUNTER: of Polmood. B115 NORMAN HUNTER: married Elspeth Manners, an attendant to Queen Margaret (Tudor). He is said to be the 9th Laird of the name Norman. Died 1512. B116 WALTER HUNTER: married 1525. B117 ROBERT HUNTER: d. 1569. B118 ROBERT HUNTER: d. 1586. B119 JAMES HUNTER: “Tudor of Polmood.” B120 JOHN HUNTER: of co. Haddington. B121 WILLIAM HUNTER: d. 1738. B122 JOHN HUNTER: d. 1765. B123 DAVID HUNTER: of Falla, co. Haddington. B124 WILLIAM HUNTER: of Tynemount; d. 1852. B125 REV. ANDREW J. HUNTER: born 1844. B126 HENRY MALCOLM HUNTER: b. 1877.

RUDOLPH MELVILLE HUNTER: consulting engineer. See “Who’s Who in America,” Vol. XI (1920-21).

EDWARD HUNTER: of Marlboro, was born in 1716, and died there in 1797. He was a member of the General Court, 1776-77. His son, Jonathan Hunter, was born in Marlboro in 1753. He married Hannah Wallup, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. They removed to Plattsburg, New York. Their son Solomon, lived in Orwell, Ohio.

SUMMERS HUNTER: C.B.E. 1918; J.P.; M. Inst. C.E., etc.; Chairman and Managing Director, The North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne and Sunderland; b. 12 July 1856; s. of John Ranson Hunter and Mary Isabella Dunliffe Hunter; educ.: Royal Academy, Inverness; privately; Wedgewood Institute, Burselem. Apprenticed to Barker & Cope General Engineers at Kidsgrove Stoke-on-Trent; joined the Northeastern Marine Eng. Co., Ltd., at their Dunserland works, 1880; after a short time in the shops, went to sea for two years, taking his Chief Engineers Certificate, after which he was appointed on the Staff of the North-Eastern Marine Eng. Co. at their … Read more

REV. CANON LESLIE STANNARD HUNTER: M.A.; Vicar of Barking, Essex, since 1926; b. 1890; y.s. of late Rev. John Hunter, D.D., Minister of the King’s Weigh House Church, Lon don and Trinity Church, Glasgow, and Marion Martin; educ.: Kelvinside Academy; New College, Oxford; 2nd Class Hons. in Theology; President of the Oxford University Lawn Tennis Club, 1911-12. Assistant Secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland, 1913-20; Curate of St. Peter’s Brockley, S.E., 1915-18; served with Y.M.C.A., B.E.F., 1916, and the Army of Occupation, 1919; member of the Army and Religion Inquiry Commission, 1917-19; Assistant Curate of … Read more

THOMAS HUNTER: (1666-1725), Jesuit, born in Northumberland on 6 June 1666, made his humanity studies in the College of the English Jesuits at St. Omer; entered the society in I 1684; was appointed professor of Logic and Philosophy at Liege, and was professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1701-02. He became chaplain to the Sherburne family at Stonyhurst, Lancashire, in 1704. Composer of miscellaneous books. Died 21 Feb. 1724-25.

WILLIAM HUNTER: was Assistant Secretary of the State. His son, Lieut. H. C. Hunter, of the United States Navy, died at Barcelona, Spain, in 1873. Revolutionary officers of the name are Alexander, Daniel, Ephriam and James, of Pennsylvania; David of South Carolina; James of North Carolina; Andrew of New Jersey; Elijah and John, of New York.

Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic Bonnie Scotland our dear Hunter fathers lived and died, At Hunterston, their ancient home, in Ayrshire, near the Clyde. At Hunter name what Scottish blood but beats with joy and pride! The Clan goes marching on! Chorus: Glory to the House of Hunter! Glory to the name of Hunter! Hurrah, hurrah for all the Hunters! The Clan goes marching on! The Hunter blood is mingled with the Royal bloods of old. Among the world’s great families the Hunters are pure gold. Each century our numbers have increased a hundred-fold. The Clan goes marching on! … Read more

H164 JOHN HUNTER: married 1680. H165 JAMES HUNTER: married 1722. H166 JAMES HUNTER: b. 1816. H167 SIR CHARLES HUGHES HUNTER: created Baronet 1910. H168 SIR WILLIAM BLAKELEY HUGHES HUNTER. Motto: Dum Spero Spero.

(Reference 28) AARON BURTIS HUNTER: school principal. See Vol. XI (1920-21), “Who’s Who in America.”

GENERAL ALEXANDER HUNTER: died at Washington, D.C., in 1849, aged fifty-nine. He was Marshall of the District of Columbia

WILLIAM HUNTER: (1718-1783), anatomist; seventh of ten children of John and Agnes Hunter, and elder brother of John Hunter (1728-1793), was born at Long Calderwood, East Kil bride, Lanarkshire, on 23 May, 1718. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Glasgow University, where he remained for five years. He was intended by his father for the Scottish Church, but becoming averse to subscribing the articles, he took the advice of William Cullen (1710-1790), then practicing at Hamilton, and decided to enter the medical profession. On 24 October 1750 he obtained the degree of M.D. from Glasgow University, and … Read more