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HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1844-1898)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 945 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1844-1898) , Scottish jurist and politician, was born in Aberdeen on the 8th of May 1844, and educated at Aberdeen grammar school and university. He entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the
English
  bar in 1867, but then was occupied mainly with teaching. In 1869 he was appointed professor of Roman law at University College, London, and in 1878 professor of
jurisprudence
 , resigning that chair in 1882. His name became well known during this period as the author of a standard
work
  on Roman law, Roman Law in the Order of a Code, together with a smaller introductory volume for students, Introduction to Roman Law. After 1882 Hunter took up politics and was elected to
parliament
  for Aberdeen as a Liberal in 1885. In the
House
  of Commons he was a prominent supporter of Charles Bradlaugh; he was the first to
advocate
 
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old age pensions, and in 1890 carried a proposal to free elementary education in
Scotland
 . In 1895 his
health
  broke down; he retired from
parliament
  in 1896 and died on the 21st of July 1898.


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