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Samuel Hunter (editor)

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Samuel Hunter (1769–1839) was a Scottish journalist, magistrate and officer of yeomanry. He was the editor of the Glasgow Herald.

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Life

He was born on 19 March 1769 in the manse of Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire the son of Rev John Hunter (1716–1781) and his second wife Margaret McHarg (d. 1786).[1]

Receiving his elementary education there, he qualified as a surgeon at Glasgow University, and for a time, about the end of the 18th century, practised his profession in Ireland. Somewhat later he acted as captain in the North Lowland Regiment of fencibles, and settled in Glasgow.[2]

On 10 January 1803 Hunter became editor and co-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald and Advertiser, to which he then for 34 years spent most of his time running. Soon afterwards, in a French invasion scare, he figured first as major in a corps of gentlemen sharpshooters, and secondly as colonel commandant of the fourth regiment of Highland local militia.[2]

Sitting on Glasgow town council, Hunter also rose to be a magistrate. He was an implacable opponent of political reform and in 1820 fresh military activity in response to radical unrest brought him forward as commander of a choice corps of gentlemen known as the Glasgow Sharpshooters.[3] From this time till 1837, when he retired from the Herald—then a sheet of four pages, appearing bi-weekly—he was one of the most prominent Glasgow citizens.[2]

After retiring Hunter settled at Rothesay, and he died on 9 June 1839 whilst visiting his nephew, Rev Dr Archibald Blair Campbell, D.D., parish minister of Kilwinning, Ayrshire. He was buried in Kilwinning churchyard.[2]

References

  1. ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
  2. ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hunter, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Craig, Maggie (2020), One Week in April: The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820, Birlinn, pp. xvi, 51 & 104-105, ISBN 9781780276328

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainLee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hunter, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

This page was last edited on 18 June 2023, at 18:16
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