Venn: Adm. sizar (age 21) at SIDNEY, Apr. 3, 1735. S. of Robert, gent. B. at Thornton-by-Pickering, Yorks. School, Thornton. Matric. 1735; B.A. 1738-9. Ord. deacon
(Chester, Litt. dim. from York) June 17, 1739. C. of Scalby.
The ordination as priest in 1756 may suggest a mistake in placing it here, but the only Robert Hnnter, BA,from Sidney College, Cambridge is the one ordained deacon in 1739; as he was given Litt. Dim by York without any specific connection with a diocese and he was unequivocally a deacon at Scalby it is possible that his ordination as a priest was delayed until 1756