Mark Hunter

Who is Mark Hunter?

Sir John Mark Somers Hunter was a schoolmaster in India and the author of school textbooks of English literature. He was the director of Coimbatore College and professor of President's College, Madras; then professor at Government College, Yangon and chairman of the commission to establish a university and director of public instruction of Burma under British rule. On 12 July 1920, he put forward the law for this purpose in the governing council. The law being enacted, Rangoon University was established in December and Hunter was made a professor of the university. About 1930, he became a fellow of the Indian Empire Society.