| Joseph Hunter | |
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| Born | 6 February 1783 Sheffield, England |
| Died | 9 May 1861 London |
Joseph Hunter (6 February 1783–9 May 1861) was a Unitarian Minister and antiquarian best known for his publications Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York and the two-volume South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster), still considered among the best works written on the history of Sheffield and South Yorkshire.[1]
The Hunter Archaeological Society, which was formed in 1912 "to study and report on the archaeology, history and architecture of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire", was named in his honour.[2]
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Biography
Hunter was born in Sheffield on 6 February 1783 to cutler Michael Hunter (1759–1831) and Elizabeth Girdler (1761–1787)[3] in a house on the north side of New Church Street (a site now occupied by the Town Hall). Following the death of his mother in 1787 he was placed under the guardianship of Joseph Evans, a minister at Upper Chapel.[3] He went to school in Attercliffe and then studied theology at Manchester College in York.[3] In 1809 he moved to Bath to take up a post as a Unitarian Minister at Trim Street Chapel,[4] there he met and married Mary Hayward,[5] with whom he would have six children.[3] In 1833 he moved to London to work at the Records Commission as Assistant Keeper of Public Records. He died in 1861 and is buried at Ecclesfield Parish Church in Sheffield.
List of publications
- Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey? (1814)
- Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York (1819)
- South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster), Volume I (1828)
- The Hallamshire Glossary (1829)
- South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster), Volume II (1831)
- Familiae Minorum Gentium, transcribed and published in 1894-6 by The Harleian Society
- The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S
References
- ^ Wood, Michael (1999). "Tinsley Wood". In Search of England Journeys Into the English Past. University of California Press. pp. 203–221. ISBN 0-520-23218-6.
- ^ "The Society". The Hunter Archaeological Society. http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/hunter/society.html. Retrieved 2006-11-29.
- ^ a b c d Manning, John Edmondson (1900). A History of Upper Chapel, Sheffield. Sheffield: The Independent Press. pp. 86–92. OCLC 19012007. http://www.archive.org/details/historyofupperch00mann.
- ^ Odom, William (1926). "Hunter, Joseph, F.S.A.". Hallamshire Worthies. Sheffield: Northend. pp. 12–14.
- ^ Hunter, Sylvester Joseph (1861). A brief memoir of the late Joseph Hunter, with a catalogue of his publications. John Edward Taylor.
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