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He was born in East Kilbride, the elder brother of John Hunter. After studying divinity at the University of Glasgow, he went into medicine in 1737, studying under William Cullen. He was trained in anatomy at St George's Hospital , London, and specialised in obstetrics.

In 1764, he became physician to Queen CharlotteCharlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( May 19, 1744 November 17, 1818) was the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. She was born Sophia Charlotte at Mirow in her father's duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany. Having been selected as the. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal SocietyThe Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. The Royal Irish Academy, founded in 1782, is also closely affiliated with it. The Royal Society of Edinburgh (founded 1783) is a separate S in 1767Events The Burmese invasion reaches the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, razing it. North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky in defiance of a decree from King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, conte and Professor of Anatomy to the Royal AcademyThe Royal Academy is an art institution based in London, England. History It was formed to rival the Society of Artists after an unseemly leadership dispute between two leading architects, Sir William Chambers and James Paine). Paine won, but Chambers vow in 1768Events January 9 Philip Astley stages the first modern circus ( London) May 10 John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London Secretary of State for coloni.

To aid his teaching of dissectionDissection is usually the process of disassembling something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the function and relationships of its components. It may refer also to some spontaneous natural process of dissasembly as in aorti, in 1775 Hunter commissioned sculptor Agostino CarliniAgostino Carlini ( 1718 August 1790) was an Italian-born sculptor (born in Genoa) who settled in England. He was also one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He features in a group portrait, by Johann Zoffany, of the founders, and is one to make a cast of the flayed but muscular corpse of a recently executed criminal, a smuggler.

In 1770 he built himself a house fully equipped for the practice of his science, and this formed the nucleus the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.

He died in 1783, aged 64, and was buried at St. James, Piccadilly in London.