Adam Mitchell Hunter
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Adam Mitchell Hunter (1871–1955) was a Scottish minister, mathematician, astronomer and author of church history.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh in 1871. He was educated at George Watsons College then studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh and Marburg University in central Germany.
He was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1897, and became minister of Cardross Parish Church. He simultaneously lectured in church history at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. In 1922, he left Cardross and took on the role of librarian at New College, Edinburgh. In 1923, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Young Simpson, Hector Macpherson, Charles Glover Barkla and John Alison. In 1941, he published an article about the Cardross Case. He resigned from the society in 1946.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=16 November 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Hunter died in 1955.
Publications
- The Teachings of Calvin: A Modern Interpretation (1920)
- The Celebration of Communion in Scotland since the Reformation (1929)
- New College, Edinburgh: A Centenary History (1946)
- The Age of Daniel and the Exile
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Category:Clergy from Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow
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Category:Scottish non-fiction writers
Category:Historians of Christianity
Category:British historians of religion
Category:19th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland
Category:19th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers