John Hunter

Born Belfast 1893; died 1951
He and his sister Mercy Hunter were the children of an Irish Presbyterian missionary working in Manchuria. John Hunter was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Trinity College and the Royal College of Art where Frank Wiles was a fellow pupil. He was appointed Inspector of Art for the Northern Ireland Department of Education in 1923. Hunter was one of the instigators of CEMA, the forerunner of the Arts Council. He was awarded the OBE in 1951.