Hunter, William Wilson, 1840-1900

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Name (Latin)
Hunter, William Wilson, 1840-1900
Other forms of name
Hunter, W. W. (William Wilson), 1840-1900
Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, 1840-1900
Hunter, W. W. (William Wilson), Sir, 1840-1900
Hunter, William Wilson, Sir
Date of birth
1840-07-15
Date of death
1900-02-07
Associated country
India
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 95217118
Wikidata: Q724677
Library of congress: n 50029702
Sources of Information
  • NUC pre-1956(access point: Hunter, Sir William Wilson, 1840-1900; usage: Sir William Wilson Hunter, W.W. Hunter, Sir William W. Hunter)
  • The annals of rural Bengal, 1868:title page (W.W. Hunter, B.A., M.R.A.S., Hon. Fel. Ethnol. Soc. ; of the Bengal Civil Service)
  • A statistical account of Bengal, 1998- :v. 1, pt. 1, t.p. (W.W. Hunter; B.A., LL.D., dir. gen. of statistics to the Govt. of India) prelim p. 1 (b. 15 July, 1840; d. 7 February, 1900; Sir William Wilson Hunter; I.C.S)

Wikipedia description:

Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for The Imperial Gazetteer of India on which he started working in 1869, and which was eventually published in nine volumes in 1881, then fourteen, and later as a twenty-six volume set after his death.

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