Henry Hunter

Hunter then became the family tutor to Alexander, Earl of Dundonald at Culross Abbey. In 1764 he received licence to preach from the presbytery of Dunfermline and he became the "second charge" minister of the important South Leith Parish Church near Edinburgh in January 1766, with his predecessor Rev Thomas Scott rising to "first charge".

In 1769 he preached in London and although invited to lead a Scottish congregation in Piccadilly he finally accepted an invitation from the Scots Church at London Wall in August 1771. Soon after this move, Edinburgh University awarded him an honorary degree as Doctor of Divinity.

Hunter was chaplain to the Scots Corporation in London, and in August 1790 he was elected correspondence secretary to the Society in Scotland 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 later published the lectures as a book.

He died in Bristol on 27 October 1802 and was buried in the non-conformist cemetery at Bunhill Fields in London. Bernardin de St. Pierre's Studies of Nature and Botanical Harmony, 1796-7. Sonnini de Manoncourt's Travels to Upper and Lower Egypt, 1799 Rev. James Saurin's Sermons, 1800-6, 7 vols. 8vo. J.H.Castéra's History of Catharine II, 1800.