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Name: HUNTER, Alan
Nee: son of Colin Hunter, sea painter
Birth Date: 29 Nov 1878 Helensburgh
Death Date: 1913 UK
First Date: 1908
Area: Makuyu
Book Reference: Cranworth, Alumni, Leader14
School: Wellington and Trinity College Cambridge
General Information:
Cambridge Univ. Alumni - Cambridge Athletics Blue (mile) 1898, 1899; President CUAC 1899. In Burma 1901 and in Nairobi, Kenya in 1912
pens. at TRINITY, June 25, 1897. S. of Colin [sea-painter, for whom see D.N.B.], of 14, Melbury Road, Kensington, London. B. Nov. 29, 1878, at Helensburgh, Dumbartons. School, Wellington. Matric. Michs. 1897; B.A. 1900. Athletics ‘blue’ (mile), 1898, 1899; President, C.U.A.C., 1899. In Burma, 1901, and in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1912. Died 1913. (Wellington Coll. Reg.; Book of Blues.)
Cranworth - paying pupil on our farm at Makuyu - Alan Hunter - an old Cambridge friend and great Cambridge miler who came to us suffering from incipient TB and who alas went home to die while he should have been in his early prime.