13 Facts About Archibald Hunter

Archibald Hunter was Governor of Omdurman, in Sudan, and later of Gibraltar.

Archibald Hunter, born a twin, was the son of an Archibald Hunter, a London businessman and Mary Jane Graham.

Between 1884 and 1885, Archibald Hunter joined the Gordon Relief Expedition, which sought to rescue Major General Charles George Gordon from his Mahdi captives.

Archibald Hunter later saw action at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War.

Archibald Hunter was appointed Governor of Dongola Province in the Sudan and Commandant of the Frontier Field Force in 1895.

In 1896, he joined the Anglo-Egyptian Nile Expeditionary Force under Lord Kitchener, the Sirdar, Archibald Hunter commanding the Egyptian Army Division during the reconquest of the Sudan, which culminated in the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898.

Archibald Hunter was made Governor of Omdurman in Sudan in 1899, and was appointed in command of the Quetta district in India later the same year.

At the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, Major General Archibald Hunter was on the staff of Sir George White's Natal Field Force during the Battle of Ladysmith in Natal and the subsequent 118-day siege.

The town was relieved on 1 March 1900 and Archibald Hunter was promoted to lieutenant general on 6 March and posted as General Officer Commanding 10th Division.

Archibald Hunter became General Officer Commanding Scottish District in May 1901, Commander-in-Chief Bombay Command in 1903 and, promoted to general in December 1905, General Officer Commanding Southern Army in India from 1907.

Archibald Hunter was elected at the 1918 general election as a Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament for Lancaster, but stood down at the 1922 general election.

Archibald Hunter was an honorary freeman of the borough of Lancaster.

Archibald Hunter married, in 1910, Mary, Dowager Baroness Inverclyde, widow of George Burns, 2nd Baron Inverclyde and daughter of Hickson Fergusson.