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'''William Wilson Hunter'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = William Wilson
| name = Hunter
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = KCSI, CIE, LLD
| image = File:Hunter,_William_Wilson.jpg
| birth_date = 1840
| death_date = 1900
| address = Bengal civil service, Calcutta<br />Oxford<br />Alexanderplatz, Weimar [1888]<br />Oxford [1894]
| occupation = academic<br />civil service
| elected_ESL = 1870
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1870
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, AI Hon. Fellow
| left = 1900 deceased
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
24 nov 1868: A letter having been read from Mr W.W. Hunter accompanying his ‘Comparative dictionary of the languages of India and High Asia’, it was resolved that a special letter of thanks be addressed to Mr Hunter.<br /><br />Death noted in AGM 1901<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
noted hon. fellow in 1899, also 'sir' etc<br /><br />Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900)[1] was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1888
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
• Sir William Wilson Hunter (1868). A Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia: With a Dissertation. Based on the Hodgson Lists, Official Records, and Mss. Trübner and Company.<br /> • Annals of Rural Bengal. Smith, Elder & Co. 1868.<br /> • Sir William Wilson Hunter (1871). The Indian Musalmans: Are They Bound in Conscience to Rebel Against the Queen?. Trübner and Company.<br /> • Sir William Wilson Hunter (1872). Orissa, Or, The Vicissitudes of an Indian Province Under Native and British Rule. Smith, Elder and Company.<br /> • A Statistical Account of Bengal. London: Trübner & Co. 1875–1879. (20 volumes)<br /> • A Statistical Account of Assam. 1879. (2 volumes)<br /> • A Brief history of the Indian peoples. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1880.<br /> • The Imperial Gazetteer of India. 1881. (26 volumes)<br /> • The Indian Empire: Its People, History, and Products London (Second ed.). Trübner & Co. 1886.<br /> • Sir William Wilson Hunter (1892). Bombay, 1885-1890: A Study in Indian Administration. Frowde.<br /> • The Marquess of Dalhousie. 1894.<br /> • State Education for the People in America, Europe, India, and Australia: With Papers on the Education of Women, Technical Instruction, and Payment by Results. C. W. Bardeen. 1895.<br /> • The Thackerays in India and Some Calcutta Graves. London: Henry Frowde. 1897.<br /> • History of India. London: Grolier Society. 1907.
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