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John Hunter (British politician)
John Hunter (1724 – 16 December 1802) was a British 'nabob' who became wealthy as a result of trading with India, and subsequently went into politics as deputy chairman of the East India Company and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster.
==Foundations of business career==
Although he had only £100 to his name when he left England,〔"The Late Mr. Hunter", ''The Times'', 12 February 1803, p. 3.〕 Hunter was said to have enjoyed "long success in trade as a free merchant in the East Indies" which gave him assets of over £100,000.〔''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1803, p. 88.〕 In July 1777 he bought the Gobions or Gubbins Estate, near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and served in 1780-1 as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.〔 At Gubbins, Hunter became interested in farming and in fattening Oxen for sale, at which he is reported to have succeeded in turning a profit.〔
At the 1780 general election, Hunter came forward as an Opposition candidate for the borough of Milborne Port in Somerset. He and his running mate, Temple Luttrell, were defeated by the Northite candidates with Hunter finishing bottom of the poll.〔History of Parliament 1754–1790, vol. I p 368.〕 In the same year his wife, Anne, died;〔John Edwin Cussans, ''History of Hertfordshire'', pp. 13-14 and 297, quoted in History of Parliament 1754–1790, vol. II p 656.〕 she was a relative of William Hornby, the Governor of Bombay. It is said that Hunter married again to a "mulatto".〔
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