John Hunter (colonial administrator)

Sir John Adams Hunter, Knight [Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George|KCMG] was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant [Governor of Malta|Lieutenant-Governor of Malta] from 1938 to 1940 and Governor of British Honduras from 1940 to 1947.
Prior to his role in Malta and Honduras, he is said to have held as a role in British India, most prominently as a District Collector in the Princely State of Hyderabad in the 1920s. There are records of him ordering the construction of the clock tower in the District of Karimnagar around 1928, which still stands in city center today.