Mark Hunter (civil servant)

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Sir John Mark Somers Hunter (1865-1932[1]) was a schoolmaster in India and the author of school textbooks of English literature. He was the director of Coimbatore College and professor of President's College, Madras; then professor at Government College, Yangon (Rangoon) (1918–1920) and chairman of the commission to establish a university and director of public instruction of Burma under British rule. On 12 July 1920, he put forward the law for this purpose in the governing council. The law being enacted, Rangoon University was established in December and Hunter was made a professor of the university. About 1930, he became a fellow of the Indian Empire Society.

Works

School books
  • Carlyle's Hero as Man of Letters
  • Carlyle's Hero as Divinity
  • (with Cecil M. Barrow) De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars and The English Mail-Coach
  • De Quincey's Opium Eater[2]

References

Bibliography

  • Aye Kyaw, The Voice of Young Burma (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993) pp. 17–18, 31.