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In 1771 he married Anne Home, daughter of Robert Boyne Home and sister of Sir Everard Home.

They had four children, two of whom died before the age of 5 and one of whom, Agnes ( their fourth child ), married General Sir James Campbell of Inverneill.

In 1791, when Joseph Haydn was visiting London for a series of concerts, Hunter offered to perform an operation for the removal of a large nasal polyp which was troubling the great Austrian composer.

According to one account, " Haydn, on his visit to London in 1791, folksong arrangements, including The Ash Grove, set to words by Mrs Hunter.

Haydn had designs on Mrs Hunter.

Her husband ... had designs on Haydn ’ s famous nasal polyp.

Both were refused.