HUNTER. sir %Vim.' ANt 1VII-sox t 181(1-1900). A British Indian administrator, scholar, and sta tistician. born ill Glasgow. Educated at iIlasgosy, Paris. and Bonn. he ervil the Indian civil sera ice In Isti.2. V4•11 years aft.•r he mas trans ferred from I trissa and put on special duty to plan an Imperial gazetteer of British ; iu 1871 he M;1•.: appointed director-general of statistics. Ten years lah•r. after the appearance of the tirst edition of the faip•riof Go-.-efie. T. which was edited by Hunter. and is one of the greatest work- of reference on India. he was made a mem ber of the Gosernor.Generars council. and in 1 4s2 acted as president of the educational com missi•n. Ile retired from the serviee in 1v47. set t led at Oxford, aml lweame n regular correspond ent of the London Times On affairs 111 Ile wrote in a vigorous and picturesque style. and
for the most part with great seientitie accuracy: Instals of Mind Bengal (•th ed. I47'31 Com parative DietioIIII ry of the tryan Bun gling( s of India and High Isla has more valuable material than original induc tion. as Hunter himself saw afterwards; a statistical I of Bengal (1ST5-77 : Stu listiral Iceorint issitin ( 1879) : Brief His tory of the Indian Peoples ( 144m; and. in more expanded form, 18(15, under the title The Indian EH, pin : Lord Ilayo and Lord Dalhousie (1s(90), in Pub Ts of India; Bombay. l.`90 Is92) : an idyll. The Did llissionary ( 1495) ; a biography f his friend Brian Boughton son 1 Is911) Tlo Tha•k, rays in Indio : and the incomplete but VA Inahle History of •ritish India (1 ciflp• 1900). Consult Skrine, of Sir William Wilson Hunter (London, 1901).