Born on the 1st of September 1810.
Graduated as M.D. at Edinburgh in 1831. In the list of Medical Graduates of Edinburgh University he is named as Thomas Gibson Hunter, and was placed on the Medical Register of the Royal College of Surgeons under this name on the 9th of January 1860.
Assistant Surgeon in the 45th Foot: 28th of April 1834.
Assistant Surgeon in the 12th Light Dragoons: 13th of April 1838.
Surgeon (Staff) 2nd. Class: 23rd of July 1844.
Surgeon in the 68th Foot: 6th of December 1844.
Surgeon in the 4th Light Dragoons: 20th of April 1849.
Surgeon Major (1st Class); 6th of October 1854.
On to half-pay with the honorary rank of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals. 29th of July 1859.
Doctor Hunter served the Eastern campaign of 1854-5, including the battles of the Alma, Balaclava and the Siege and fall of Sebastopol. (Medal and Clasps.) Awarded the Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol, the Turkish Medal and the Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class.
Death registered
Thomas Hunter, aged 70, December Quarter 1880, Westminster.
He lived at No. 14 Queen's Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, but died suddenly at The Army and Navy Club, Westminster, London, on the 7th of October 1880, aged 70 years.
Extract from The Times of the 12th of October 1880:
"Yesterday, Mr. Langton held an inquiry at the Board Room, Poland Street, as to the death of Mr. Thomas Hunter, aged 70.
Mr. George Philip Taylor of 14 Ryder Street, St, James's, said that he had known the deceased about 11 months. He was a retired Army Surgeon and had resided in the witness's house during the period he had known him.
The last time he saw the deceased alive was about 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday morning when he appeared in good health. He was a member of the Army and Navy Club and spent most of his time there.
Mr. G.S. Negus, a stationer carrying on business at 14 Charles Street, St. James's, deposed that Dr. Hunter was in his shop from 4 o'clock until 4.50 and accompanied the witness to the Army and Navy Club.
On arriving at the club the deceased asked the hall-porter to allow him to show the witness the alterations that had been made to the rooms. After showing the witness the rooms the witness went with him to the top of the grand stair-case and who then said, 'I feel very tired. I will not go out again but go back to the room.'
He did not appear ill but the witness had noted a peculiarity in one of his eyes.
David Richard Benge, the drawing-room waiter at the Army and Navy Club, deposed that on Thursday afternoon he saw the deceased lying down on two chairs in the house dining-room, but did not disturb him, thinking that he was asleep.
About 50 minutes later a boy brought a letter for the deceased but was unable to rouse him.
The witness then shook him, but finding him motionless a doctor was sent for and who pronounced life extinct. Dr. G. Jackson, of Poland Street, who made a post-mortem examination, deposed that death was due to an effusion of serum on the brain and the jury returned a verdict accordingly."
The probate of his will was granted to Lieutenant-Colonel Keith Ramsey Maitland, late 79th Foot and Captain Robert Scott Hunter, late of the Second Dragoons, of Alyth, Forfarshire.
Registration of death, 1880, kindly provided by Chris Poole.