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Henry Hunter was born at Culross in Perthshire, on 25 August 1741.
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Henry Hunter was born at Culross in Perthshire, on 25 August 1741.
He was the fifth child of David and Agnes Hunter. In 1754 he was sent to the University of Edinburgh at the age of 12. He became tutor to Alexander Boswell (later a judge and Lord Balmuto).
Hunter became the Earl of Dundonald"s family tutor at Culross Abbey.
In 1764 he received license to preach from the presbytery of Dunfermline and he became the minister of the important South Leith Parish Church near Edinburgh in 1766. In 1769 he preached in London and although invited to lead a Scottish congregation in Piccadilly he finally accepted an invitation from the London Wall church in 1771.
Hunter was chaplain to the Scots Corporation in London, and in August 1790 he was elected correspondence secretary to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. When Fell died after delivering only four of the lectures, the job was given to Hunter who completed the task and published the result as a book
In 1771, Hunter was made a Doctor of Divinity by the Edinburgh University.
Hunter visited Johann Kaspar Lavater in Zurich in August 1787 and secure Lavater"s agreement to the publication of an English version of his Essays on Physiognomy. Lavatar was initially cool to the idea, but was persuaded by Hunter"s skill in his language. The book was well received in England and Hunter was then tempted to try a translation from German of a work on electricity by Leonard Euler.
He died at Bristol on 27 October 1802 and he was buried in the non-conformist cemetery of Bunhill Fields in London.
The grave lies just to the side of the main path and is of distinctive form. "Lavater"s Essays on Physiognomy," 1789-1798, illustrated with more than eight hundred engravings managed by Thomas Holloway.
(The original cost price of each copy was 30 pounds)
Euler"s "Letters to a German Princess on different subjects in Physics and Philosophy," 1795, with notes by Sir David Brewster. Bernardin de Saint Pierre"s Studies of Nature and Botanical Harmony, 1796-1797.
Sonnini de Manoncourt"s Travels to Upper and Lower Egypt, 1799
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James Saurin"s Sermons, 1800-1806, 7 volumes Octavo. J.H.Castéra"s History of Catharine II, 1800.
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