William Guyer Hunter

Sir William Guyer Hunter, KCMG, FRCP (1829 – 14 March 1902) was a British surgeon-general in India, principal of medical colleges and Conservative politician.

Hunter was born at Calcutta, India and was educated at King's College London and Aberdeen University.

He began his training at Charing Cross Hospital in 1844 at the same time as Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Fayrer,[1] and passed, in 1850, into the Bombay medical department as an assistant-surgeon.

Hunter was sent as a medical commissioner and concluded "Facts…lead to the conclusion that cholera, be it called by whatever name it may…has existed in Egypt for some time past…In order to obtain as much information as possible on the subject above referred to, instructions have been issued to the medical officers recently arrived from England to institute cautious and careful inquiry".

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