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Thornton Leigh Hunt (10 September 1810 – 25 June 1873) was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Early life [ edit ] Hunt was the son of the writer Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne, née Kent.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt ...
Leigh Hunt, prolific poet, essayist, and journalist, was a central figure of the Romantic movement in England. He produced a large body of poetry in a variety of forms: narrative poems, satires, poetic dramas, odes, epistles, sonnets, short lyrics, and translations from Greek, Roman, Italian, and French poems.
Contents. Thornton Leigh Hunt. British writer. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Lewes. In George Henry Lewes. …1850 Lewes and his friend Thornton Leigh Hunt founded a radical weekly called The Leader, for which he wrote the literary and theatrical features.
Overview. Thornton Leigh Hunt. (1810—1873) journalist. Quick Reference. (1810–73) son of Leigh Hunt; journalist who wrote for the Spectator 1840–60, and other papers. In 1849 he and George Henry Lewes planned a new radical weekly, the Leader (Mar. 1850–Nov. ... From: Hunt, Thornton Leigh in The Oxford Companion to the Brontës »
It is unnecessary here to dwell at any length on Leigh Hunt's re- ligious liberalism, although it is worth noticing that, as early as May. 1808 we find him writing "On the Ignorance and Vulgarity of the. Methodists"5 and thus taking part in the controversy between the fol- lowers of John Wesley and their enemies."
Thornton Leigh Hunt was a journalist and editor, as well as a very close friend of George Henry Lewes, close enough that Lewes named his second child after him. In 1850, the two men co-founded a weekly newspaper, the Leader, to which George Eliot later contributed articles, often as substitutes for ones Lewes was slated to write.
