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JOHN HUNT. 
1777-1842. 
BY 
‘Carr. HUGH S. GLADSTONE, M.A., M.B.0.U. 
Parr I. 
Mr. W. H. Mutiens, in his recently published Bibliography of 
British Ornithology, states that “ little is known of the life of 
John Hunt.” The following notes can only claim to be an 
amplification of Mr. Mullens’s biography, and in their com- 
pilation I have been assisted by memoranda inserted in copies 
of Hunt’s British Ornithology in the libraries of Mr. Russell 
~ James Colman, Lord Lilford, and The Newton Library, Zoo- 
logical Laboratories, Cambridge. I must also acknowledge 
the help given me by Mr. Harry Hunt, a great-grandson of 
John Hunt, Mr. George A. Stephen, City Librarian, Norwich, 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, and Mr. W. H. Mullens, who has received 
several letters about the Hunt family from Mr. Alfred Robert 
Grand, whose mother, Eliza Hunt, was a daughter of the 
subject of these notes. 
_ Nothing is known as regards the parents of John Hunt, and 
the only data available for reckoning his natal year are his 
obituary notices in 1842, some of which give his age as 67 and 
others as 65. His grandson, Mr. A. R. Grand, states that the 
latter is correct, so that we take 1777 as the date of his birth. 
A pencil note in Mr. Colman’s copy of Hunt’s British Ornitho- 
logy states that ‘‘ John Hunt [was] born in the parish of St. 
Augustine’s, Norwich,” but Mr. A. R. Grand believes that 
his grandfather “‘ was possibly born at Wymondham in 
Norfolk.’ Search, however, amongst the baptismal registers 
of these parishes does not corroborate either of these 
statements, and he is said to have been ‘a Native of 
Norwich.” * As to Hunt’s boyhood there is no information, 
but it is known that in 1800, or earlier, he married a Norwich 
woman whose maiden name was Elizabeth Harper and who 
was a cousin of Sir John Harrison Yallop ; + she had a dowry 
on her marriage day of £3,000, and her brother sailed with 
* A General History of the County of Norfolk . . . Printed by and for 
John Stacy, Vol. I, 1829, p. Iviil. 
+ Sir John Harrison Yallop ; 6. 1763; Mayor of Norwich in 1815 and 
1831; Knighted 1831; d. at Brighton, 14th June, 1835; buried at 
Norwich. His portrait, by George Clint, A.R.A., hangs in St. Andrew’s 
Hall, Norwich. A mural tablet is erected to his memory in St. Peter 
Mancroft Church, Norwich. An obituary notice is given in the Norwich 
Mercury of 20th June, 1835. 
