William Walker Hunter was a Scottish pharmacist and inventor, best known for inventing the energy drink Lucozade (known as Glucozade at the time).

William Walker Hunter was born in Dunfermline on the 11th July 1889 and was the youngest of eight children born to John Hunter, a coal miner, and Elizabeth, nee Addie. He decided to move to England to seek a new future. He married Norah Walker and they produced 2 children, Kenneth Downie Hunter and Elizabeth June Hunter.^[1]

In 1927 Hunter was looking for a cure for his daughters Jaundice condition so he produced a glucose drink to aid her recovery. Lucozade was a local drink for 11 years before being purchased by Beechams who promoted it with the slogan “Get Lucozade, it is so energising and palatable.”^[2]

Hunter died on March 9th 1954 aged 64. He was living in Windsor Nursing Home at the time of his death.^{[citation needed]}