Robert Hunter (National Trust) preserve them for the nation. At Hunter's suggestion it was entitled "the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty", generally known simply as "the National Trust". Hunter was the founding chairman of the trust's executive board. From 1882 until the year of his death Hunter was solicitor to the General Post Office. His negotiations in that capacity were estimated to have saved the British taxpayer many millions of pounds. Hunter was born in the south London suburb of Camberwell, the elder child and only son of Robert Lachlan Hunter, a master mariner and shipowner, and his wife,
Elmstone Hardwicke Elmstone Hardwicke Elmstone Hardwicke is a village and sizeable parish north-west of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. St Mary Magdelene Church may be considered the hub of the village; its location is . The church has a 9th-century carved stone head which is ornamented like the font at Deerhurst. Elmstone Hardwicke is in the borough of Tewkesbury, the Cheltenham post town, and on the Coombe Hill, Cheltenham, telephone exchange. Nearby villages include Uckington, Stoke Orchard, and Tredington. Elmstone Hardwicke shares a village hall with Uckington. "The National Gazetteer" (1868): Elmstone-Hardwicke has an interesting History with regard to the use of its