What an interesting Hunter family I found today researching. Captain Charles Hunter was born June 19, 1813 and with two other members of his family members lost in the sinking of the SS Ville du Havre on 22 Nov… Read More ›
Month: August 2017
Dr. William Hunter
Hunter’s relationship with his brother and fellow anatomist John was famously strained so it is not surprising that John was not a trustee for Hunter’s estate. Hunter’s nephew, Matthew Baillie, along with Hunter’s business partner William Cruikshank, were the main… Read More ›
The famous Bayeux Tapestry
The Hunters did not fight at the side of William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings, but followed him later to England. The wife of one of the descendants of the Hunters who later settled in Scotland was a… Read More ›
Cemeteries
Annie Hunter Cross (d. 1939) Elizabeth Morris Hunter (d. 8 Jun 1898) James Hunter (d. 31 Jan 1886) Thomas Morris “Tommy” Hunter (d. 15 May 1875) Agnes Bayne Hunter Rusack (d. 29 Jun 1960) Tom “Old Tom” Morris (d. 24… Read More ›
Hunters in Print
Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, became the 27th Laird of Hunterston following the death of his mother in 1911. During the campaign to win the Sudan back from Egypt that culinated in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and the… Read More ›
Royal Huntsmen
A family known as Venator served as huntsmen to the Dukes of Normandy, in France, and following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 they settled in England. A Willieme le Venator, or William the Hunter, had by 1116 built… Read More ›
Ancestral Grandfather, John Huntar
John Huntar, 14th Laird of Hunterston, fell with his king, James IV, at the disastrous battle of Flodden on September 9, 1513, while Mungo, the 16th Laird, fell 34 years later, at the battle of Pinkie, near Musselburgh, on the… Read More ›
Battle of Flodden
Ancient Huntar Tartan
Famous Hunters
Blog post by Ellie King, MSc Museum Studies Placement Student, William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues. Ellie worked on the Hunter Library Project from May to July 2017 to help with background research and book history enquiries,… Read More ›
