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Hunter’s Road in Vepery, formerly
called Hunter’s Street, was renamed in recent times
as Sree Narayana Guru Road after the leading social
reformer of Kerala. Mr. John Hunter, after whom the
road is named, arrived as a free merchant in Madras
in 1787. Later he became the first cashier of the
Carnatic Bank in 1788 on the recommendations of
Charles Oakeley and became the secretary and later
one of the directors of the British Bank. In 1803 he
became the head to Hunter and Harry, a leading
business firm in Fort St. George. |