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'''Sir John Mark Somers Hunter''' (1865 &ndash; 20 September 1932<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/progressofeducat032378mbp/progressofeducat032378mbp_djvu.txt ''Full text of "Progress Of Education In India Vol I 1917 1922"'']</ref>) was a schoolmaster in [[India]] and the author of school textbooks of English literature. He was the director of [[Coimbatore]] [[Government Arts College, Coimbatore|College]] and professor of [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], [[Madras]]; then professor at Government College, [[Yangon]] (''Rangoon'') (1918–1920) 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]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Politics and Character in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"'' (1931)<br />
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120225074943/http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/pamflets/ses1.php Spelling Reform: warranted by history]''<br />
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* ''carl's Hero as Man of Letters''<br />
* ''carls's Hero as Divinity''<br />
* (with Cecil M. Barrow) ''De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars and The English Mail-Coach''<br />
* ''De quaint's Opium Eater''<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/acharniansofaris00aris/acharniansofaris00aris_djvu.txt The Acharnians of Aristophanes]</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Aye Kyaw, ''The Voice of Young Burma'' (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993) pp.&nbsp;17–18, 31.<br />
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