Henry Hunter (divine)

Henry Hunter (25 August 1741 – 27 October 1802) was a Scottish minister who translated the works of noted scholars including Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater.

In 1764 he received licence to preach from the presbytery of Dunfermline and he became the "second charge" minister of the important South Leith Parish Church near Edinburgh in January 1766, with his predecessor Rev Thomas Scott rising to "first charge".

[2] Lavater was initially cool to the idea, but was persuaded by Hunter's skill in his language.

The book was well received in England and Hunter was then tempted to try a translation from German of a work on electricity by Leonard Euler.

[6] He died in Bristol on 27 October 1802 and was buried in the non-conformist cemetery at Bunhill Fields in London.