Person:Henry Hunter (26)

Henry Hunter

• Dromore, County Down, Ireland

By 1660 it was considered viable to establish a Presbyterian congregation in the town and in May of that year the Rev. Henry Hunter was ordained there by the Presbytery of Down.

Mr. Hunter's ministry was shortly to be disrupted as within a year he was deprived of the parish church and tithes by Bishop Jeremy Taylor. For most of the next decade Hunter and his congregation, like most Presbyterians, had no regular Meeting House and met for worship in either private homes or in barns.

The congregation built its first Meeting House about the year 1670, probably on or about the site of the present First Dromore Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Hunter died in 1674 and was succeeded by the Rev. William Leggat in 1675

1.   Reverend Henry Hunter, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.

   He was the Minister at Dromore, County Down, Ireland. He was living on 4 June 1674.

2.   Killen, W. D. (William Dool). History of congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and biographical notices of eminent Presbyterian ministers and laymen..: with the signification of names of places. (Belfast: J. Cleeland, 1886)
   Page 122.

   Page 122 - It appears that the earliest minister of Dromore was Mr. Henry Hunter, who seems to have died shortly after the Restoration.