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Henry Hunter (1741–1802) was a Scottish minister who translated the works of noted scholars including Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater.〔 ==Biography== 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.〔 In 1797, the Rev. John Fell〔Alexander Gordon, ‘Fell, John (1735–1797)’, rev. M. J. Mercer, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 14 May 2010 )〕 had been tasked with delivering twelve lectures of the evidence for Christianity. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Hunter (divine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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