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 at the request of the Indian Medical Board, was sent on a special mission to investigate it. He wrote an able report showing the urgent need of efficient sanitation in Egypt and emphasising the superior value of sanitary measures to quarantine regulations. The report was adversely criticised, but its main conclusions seem justified. In 1886 he pressed his views on the sanitary conference at Rome, which he attended as the official representative of Great Britain. He was made K.C.M.G. in 1884 and hon. LL.D. of Aberdeen in 1894.

In his last years he was prominent in English public life. From 1886 to 1887 he was a member of the London school board for the Westminster division, and from 1885 to 1892 he was conservative M.P. for Central Hackney. While in parliament he was chairman of the Water Inquiry Committee of the City of London, and a member of the departmental committee to 'enquire into the best mode of deahng with habitual drunkards.' He also did admirable service in connection with the vaccination commission, the shop hours bill, and the midwives' registration bill. During 1884–5 he was especially interested in the formation of the volunteer medical staff corps (now the royal army medical corps, territorial), of which he was the first honorary commandant.

He died at his residence, Anerley Hill, Upper Norwood, on 4 March 1902, and was buried at Paddington cemetery.

Hunter married (1) in 1856 a daughter of Christopher Packe, vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex; (2) in 1871 the second daughter of Joseph Stainburn.

 HUNTINGTON, GEORGE (1825–1905), rector of Tenby, born at Elloughton near Hull, on 25 Aug. 1825, was youngest of the family of four sons and three daughters of Charles William Huntington of Elloughton by his wife Harriet, daughter of Wilham Mantle, curate in charge of Siderston, Norfolk. After education at home he studied from 1846 to 1848 at St. Bees theological college (closed in 1896). Ordained deacon in 1848 and priest in 1849 by the bishop of Manchester, he first served as curate at St. Stephen's, Salford. In 1850 he removed to Wigan, where his work among the Lancashire coUiers came to the notice of the earl of Crawford and Balcarres, who made him his domestic chaplain.

After acting as clerk in orders of Manchester cathedral from 1855 to 1863, and receiving the Lambeth degree of M.A. in 1855, he became rector of St. Stephen's, Salford, in 1863. Huntington was active in Manchester during the cotton famine, and his 'Church's Work in our Large Towns' (1863) gave him a high reputation. On 6 Jan. 1867 he was inducted into the crown rectory of Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, where he remained until his death at Bath on 8 April 1905. He was buried at Tenby.

Huntington was an earnest high churchman, and at first came into conflict with evangelical sentiment in Tenby. A mission conducted there in 1877 by ritualist clergy under Huntington's auspices led to controversy in which William Basil Jones, bishop of St. David's, took part (cf. Three Letters on the Subject of the Late Tenby Mission 1877). But the hostility gradually disappeared, and Huntington was able to restore and beautify his church, with the active support of his parishioners. He was an impressive preacher, at once practical and somewhat mystical. He was also a governor of the county school, chairman of the managers of the parish schools, and an energetic freemason.

Besides the work mentioned, Huntington pubhshed sermons, addresses, articles in magazines, and three volumes exhibiting some power in describing character, viz. 'Autobiography of John Brown, Cordwainer' (1867), of which he represented himself as editor and which went into five editions; the 'Autobiography of an Alms-Bag' (1885) which depicts some local figures, and his 'Random Recollections' (1895) which contains attractive sketches of friends and neighbours.

Huntington married on 26 April 1849 Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of John Henry Garton of Hull, who survived him. He had issue five daughters and two sons.

 HURLSTONE, WILLIAM YEATES (1876–1906), musical composer and pianist, born at 12 Richmond Gardens, Fulham, on 7 Jan. 1876, was grandson of [q. v.], president of the Royal Society of British Artists, and only son of the four children of Martin de