ARCHIVE Spotlight on Robert Hunter
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The header photo is Robert at the Royal Scots Club in 2009. Clan Chief elect of the Muirhead Clan, Raymond Morehead is presenting Robert with the Order of the Saltire.  |
Robert Hunter O.R.H. S.B. is at present the editor of the The Hunters Tryst our members magazine.
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| How did you start to get involved in all this Clan stuff? | I enjoy a good read, both fact and fiction. About 25 years ago, I was reading Nigel Trainer's excellent “Trilogy” and that started me of. I decided I was going to look for my Family History. I found it; o yes I found it; though I will never go public with that, it's too personal; but then that’s the story of Life. Clan Life in Glasgow’s east end might have been a wee bit different from many of Scotland’s fine romances. Ye see my Grannies Heilan' hame was not a dreamy thatched cottage wi' a salmon burn running by the front door; and a Rowan tree growing at the back. The picture was very different where I born, two stairs up in a Bridgeton single-end in 1940. I’d like to see an artist make a romance out of that. However, I found Clan Hunter through a contact with the Chief of Clan Elliot. He said Laddie go to Hunterston. I have never looked back since. That would have been around 1986. |
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| I've seen photos of you carrying out various jobs, what positions have you held? | Well for the first ten years I was happy enough just to be around Hunterston, we attended our first Ceilidh in the big Hoose, that would have been `86 or 7 I think? Then started the second ten, by this time Madam Pauline was the Clan Chief. I was elected a Clan Councillor, `bout a year later I was voted Clan Officer. To-day I am the Editor of the Hunters` Tryst . | |
What's your
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Proudest moments My proudest moments are when I see Clan Hunter on a “world-wide basis” come together as one. Such as Clan Gatherings, when everybody is up for a good time.I suppose Edinburgh 2009 was the best example of that. But other times we have had; there was our first outing to Flodden Battle field 2000 & 2001.This was a fine success, and for laughs there is always the Burns Supper week-ends away. There is also the Council meetings, again Chief and council come together and discuss the future and past of Clan Hunter. |
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Saddest moments Times of grief are of course, when we lose one of our kin. However, although they have gone; never are they forgotten. Friendships founded at Hunterstoun really do span lifetimes; and beyond.
Yours Aye
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| This one catches Robert and Ellen (who I can add makes a cracking working lunch), with Ian and Madam Pauline. |
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The sign at the bottom refers to Hunterston Castle and is not in any way meant to be meaning ancient Hunters ... lol |
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| Ready to take on the world, Cultybraggan camp 1957. | ||
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