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Robert
Forgie Hunter was married to
Maud May Clayton in Derbyshire in 1906. Their first child
William Clayton Hunter (1908-1943) was born at Buxton in
1908. The OurPastHistory
image gallery has a postcard
view of a Buxton snow scene, attributed to R.F. Hunter and dated
1908. Kelly (1912) shows him as a photographic material dealer at
1 Quadrant, Buxton, with a confectionery shop at 4 Station approch,
Buxton. Hunter became a well known country-wide dealer in and agent for photographic materials, as well as an inventor. He held a patent for a boxed, pop-up film, cine or slide projector screen marketed under the brand name CELFIX, possibly in the 1930s, at which time he worked from Grays Inn Road, London. At the time of his son's death in 1943, he was living in Exeter, Devon. |
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Snow
scene by R.F. Hunter of Buxton Dated 1908 Format: Post Card Image © & courtesy of OurPastHistory Notes |
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Orchestral performance
outside the Palace Hotel by Hunters of Buxton Undated, but possibly taken in the 1910s or 1920s Format: Post Card Image © & courtesy of Picture the Past Notes |
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Unidentified
young woman by Hunters of Buxton Undated, but probably taken c. 1910-1920 Format: Post Card Size: Image © & collection of Brett Payne Notes |
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References
Images provided by Picture the Past, OurPastHistory & Brett Payne 1841-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD North East Midland Photographic Record - Picture the Past Anon (1899) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. University of Leicester's Digital Library of Historical Directories Anon (1912) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1912, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Anon (1932) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1932, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843 - 1914, The PhotoHistorian, No. 118 Supplement, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209. Courtesy of John Bradley. Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith |
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