George Caunter
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George Caunter was a British administrator who governed Prince of Wales Island as Acting Superintendent from 1797 to 1798 and again from 1798 to 1800. As First Assistant under Lieutenant-Governor Leit
CAUNTER George 1758 1811
Province Wellesley, acquired for Penang by Caunter in 1800 on behalf of Lieutenant-Governor Leith, seen from George Town in this 1818 drawing. At its narrowest, the strait is three kilometres across.
John Hobart Caunter
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John Hobart Caunter was an English cleric and writer. Serving briefly in India as a cadet, he entered the Church and served as the Incumbent Minister of Portland Chapel in Marylebone, London, for 19 y
George Caunter
…the Raffles Institution in Singapore and revised an early Malay translation of the Bible. George and Harriett's children were George Henry (1791–1843), John Hobart (1793–1851), Harriett Georgina Hutchings (1793–1826, married later Penang governor Robert Ibbetson), Sarah Sparke (1798–1875) and Richard McDonald…
John Hobart Caunter's coat of arms, as depicted in Caunter Family History by F. Lyde Caunter
The start of Caunter's picaresque novel The Fellow Commoner (1836)
The Romance of History. India (1872 edition, held by the British Library)
Eiz-ood-Deen and the Parsee's Daughter. Illustration from The Romance of History. India (1872 edition)