Editing Robert Hunter (18th Laird)

{{Laird
| name               = Robert Hunter
| image              = [[File:Due to the time period this article relates to NO IMAGE IS AVAILABLE.png|200px]]
| birth_name         = Robert Huntar
| birth_date         = 1564
| birth_place        = [[Hunterston Castle]], [[Ayrshire]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1616|1564}}
| death_place        = [[Ardneil]], [[West Kilbride]]
| nationality        = Scottish
| predecessor        = [[Robert_Hunter_(clan_chief_1548)|Robert Hunter]]
| successor          = Patrick Hunter
| spouse             = Margaret Peibles
| mother             = Lady Margaret Crawford
| father             = [[Robert_Hunter_(clan_chief_1548)|Robert Hunter]]
}}

'''Robert Hunter''' (born 1564) <ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Bernard|first=Burke|title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|publisher=|year=1879|isbn=|location=|pages=835}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=FamilySearch|url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6QR-7D8|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> was the 18th chief of [[Clan Hunter]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Scottish Clan Family Encyclopedia|publisher=Collins|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=172–173}}</ref> Born in at [[Hunterston Castle]] in [[Ayrshire]].

He married Margaret Peibles but they did not have any children. Margaret's mother was a [[Clan Montgomery|Montgomerie]] and ha daughter of John Montgomerie of Hellishead a cadet of the Eglinton Family which forms [[Eglinton Castle|Eglinton]] Estate in [[Kilwinning]].

He died on 20 June 1616 at Ardneil, which was neighbouring land part of Hunterston Estate.

A minor at the death of his father, in 1580, he was tutored by his father's brother, John (who was also known as John Hunter 1st of Abbotshill<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=FamilySearch|url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MZCY-Z1L|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>), and obtained Royal Charters for the lands on 5 April 1609. Robert settled the estate on Patrick Hunter, husband of his niece, Jean. This is the first time that the inheritance of the estate was diverted through the female line, and explains the remarkable way the Hunter family have continued their unbroken history in Scotland for so long. One of the old marriage contracts that survive in the Hunter family papers, dated 1704, states that in the absence of a male heir, a female may succeed under certain conditions, one being that she marries "A GENTLEMAN WHO WILL ASSUME THE NAME OF HUNTER".

Jean Cunninghame above mentioned, as appears from an instrument of resignation by him, dated 27 Sept. 1611.<ref name=":2" />

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