Stephen Hunt d.1714?
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Stephen HUNT d.1714?
Biographical Note
Son of Nicholas Hunt, of Canterbury. MB Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1699, after which he became a physician in Canterbury.
Books
Hunt gave or bequeathed his library to Canterbury Cathedral in 1714, “in wch were a great many curiositys purposely purchased … a little before his death”. The Cathedral donors' book notes that these included many philological, philosophical and medical books, including some in French. He was also noted as a collector of coins and other antiquities.
Sources
- Stephen Hunt in Canterbury Cathedral Library.
- Canterbury Cathedral Library Donors' Register.
- Venn, J. & J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge, 1922.