APPENDIX. 31 
I. Account of Sir James HunTeER Bvair, Bart. 
[Read by Mr GreenrieLD, March 2t. 1791-] 
HE following account of a late refpectable Member will 
not, I am perfuaded, be unacceptable to the Society. He 
was one of the twenty-two who obtained the charter of its in- 
corporation ; and although his fituation did not permit him to 
aim at literary diftin¢ction, he is entitled to an honourable place 
in its records, both from the worth of his private charater, and 
alfo from his eminent activity and ufefulnefs in public life. 
Sir James Hunter Brarr was the fecond fon of Mr Joun 
Hunter, merchant in Ayr, and was born in that town on the 
aift day of February 1741. His father acquired a confiderable 
property in land and money, and left his children, who were 
ftill young at his death, in eafy circumftances. 
In the year 1756, Sir James was placed as an apprentice in 
the houfe of Courts, Brothers and Company, Bankers in 
Edinburgh. It was at this time that his friendfhip commenced 
with Sir WittrAM Forses, who had entered into the fame fi- 
tuation about two years before, and who was afterwards his 
partner in bufinefs. Sir WiLL1AM, in a very interefting letter, 
written after Sir JAMEs’s death, exprefles himfelf thus: “ Our 
friendfhip terminated only with his life, after an intimacy which 
few brothers can boaft of, during thirty-one years; in which 
long period, we never had a difference, nor a feparation of in- 
¢ereft.”’ 
AFTER 
