Our history
Our history
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2019
2019 -
On April 1st Hunters changes business structure from a partnership to an LLP.
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2015
2015 -
Hunters celebrates its Tercentenary. On April 1st Hunters merges with private client firm May, May & Merrimans to create one of the largest private client departments in the country.
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2014
2014 -
Hunters merges with boutique firm Klein Solicitors.
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2011
2011 -
In April Hunters merges with private client firm Vernor-Miles and Noble.
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2004
2004 -
Almost the entire private client department from Lincoln’s Inn firm Dawsons joins Hunters.
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2001
2001 -
Hunters merges with local firm Alexanders.
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1942
1942 -
Robert Lewin Hunter dies on 16 May at the age of 90 in Winchester.
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1930
1930 -
A cricket pavilion known as The Hunter tent is unveiled at Winchester College in honour of the three sons of Robert Lewin Hunter.
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1922
1922 -
The partnership of Hunter & Haynes – parodied by author HG Wells as ‘Punter & Payne’ of Lincoln’s Inn – is dissolved following the death of Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes.
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1915
1915 -
The firm passes its second centenary milestone.
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1900
1900 -
Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes, son of Edmund Haynes, is articled to the firm where he would remain for the next 48 years.
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1879
1879 -
Richard Hunter retires from the partnership after 46 years, replaced as head of the firm by his nephew John. Richard’s second son Robert Lewin Hunter was admitted as a solicitor...
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1871
1871 -
Edmund Haynes was admitted as a solicitor in March, eventually becoming a Partner in Hunter, Gwatkin & Haynes.
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1860
1860 -
John Hunter, nephew of Richard, became a Partner in the firm, having been admitted as a solicitor in 1855.
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1847
1847 -
Ralph Colley Smith dies a bachelor, leaving a huge estate and the contents of 9 New Square. The now well-established firm leads with the name Hunters for the first time.
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1839
1839 -
John Aldridge dies; his will names partners Ralph Colley Smith and Richard Hunter, of Colley Smith, Hunter and Gwatkin, as executors and trustees.
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1834
1834 -
Richard Hunter joins the firm at 9 New Square alongside John Aldridge and Ralph Colley Smith, joined in 1835 by Frederick Gwatkin.
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1815
1815 -
The firm reaches its first centenary milestone.
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1806
1806 -
Richard Hunter, later to partner Aldridge and Colley Smith at New Square, is born in St Dunstan’s in the East.
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1802
1802 -
John Aldridge and Ralph Colley Smith are established at 9 New Square, where Hunters is based to this day.
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1799
1799 -
The practice moves to 7 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn.
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1741
1741 -
Richard Newton joins his father’s firm.
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1715
1715 -
The earliest reference in Chancery proceedings to an attorney named Ambrose Newton, who founded his business in Aldermanbury in the City of London.
