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John Hunter, of Long Calderwood, East Kilbride

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Dr. John Hunter:
    • John Hunter, S. Roodhouse Gloyne, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1950.
    • The knife man, Wendy Moore, London, 2005.

Dr. William Hunter, portrait by Allan Ramsay, c.1760.
Portrait is at Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.
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John Hunter, born 1663,
of Long Calderwood, East Kilbride, just SE of Glasgow,
mar Agnes Paul,
died 30th Oct 1741, age 78 yrs,
had issue:

1. Dr. William Hunter, born 23rd May 1718, East Kilbride,
   anatomist and obstetrician,
   educ Glasgow University,
   died 30th Mar 1783, age 64 yrs.
   His collection of specimens became the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, opened 1807, the oldest public museum in Scotland, see history.
   See biography.
   See [DNB].
   See images at [NPG].

   
   

2. Dr. John Hunter, born 1728, Long Calderwood, youngest child,
   anatomist and surgeon, the "founder of scientific surgery",
   pioneering research on the circulation of the blood,
   acquired the body of the giant Charles Byrne 1783,
   died 1793, age 65 yrs, bur St Martin in the Fields,
   remains removed 1859 to Westminster Abbey, see his grave.
   His collection became the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London.
   See biography.
   See [DNB].
   See biography in [Enc.Britannica] 1911.
   See images at [NPG].

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• Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
• There is a Hunter House Museum in East Kilbride.

• Apparently descended from Dr. John Hunter:
  1. John Hunter Padel, born 1913, psychoanalyst and classicist,
     mar Hilda Horatio Barlow [descendant of Charles Darwin, descendant of Edward III],
     had issue:
     1. Ruth Padel, born 1946, poet.
     2. Oliver Padel, born 1948, Cornish and Welsh historian.