Robert Hunter (1823–25 February 1897) was the lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary, which he produced in seven volumes between 1879 and 1888.

In addition, he was an ordained minister and missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, and a notable geologist, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society.

[4] As a probationer Hunter taught at the Sunday School in the West Free Church in Coatbridge.

He left in November 1846, having been ordained as a minister in the Free Church of Scotland to work as a missionary in Nagpur in India, as an assistant to Rev Stephen Hislop.

[6] On 23 February 1997, for the centenary of Hunter's death, Loughton Town Council placed a blue plaque on the house with the inscription "The Rev.

His interest in lexicography remained unsated as he went on to edit Cassell's 764 page Bible Dictionary.