Robert Hunter (National Trust) of a land surveyor, Samuel Cann. There were three daughters of the second marriage. In politics, "The Times" said, "Sir Robert was a robust thoughtful Liberal of the older type. As a speaker he was admirably clear and direct, articulate but not rhetorical, relying far more on the persuasive forced of exact statement than on appeals to emotion." In religion, he was a broad-church Anglican. Robert Hunter (National Trust) Sir Robert Hunter (27 October 1844 – 6 November 1913) was a solicitor, civil servant and co-founder of the National Trust. From the 1860s Hunter was interested in conservation of public
Charity Organization Society similar to those in late-20th-century public welfare programs, despite the fact that COS only granted relief only to recipients it deemed worthy and improvable. Furthermore, journals kept by the COS case workers and "friendly visitors" indicate that they were not on friendly terms with the relief recipients but described them in disparaging terms and interacted with them in an intrusive and presumptuous way. The COS was resented by the poor for its harshness, and its acronym was rendered by critics as "Cringe or Starve". In Britain, the Charity Organisation Society led by Helen Bosanquet and Octavia Hill was founded in