Leigh Hunt
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James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.
Portrait by Benjamin Haydon
Leigh Hunt, engraved by H. Meyer from a drawing by J. Hayter
The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier (1889); pictured in the centre are, from left, Trelawny, Hunt and Byron. (As a matter of fact, Hunt was not standing before the fire but remained in his coach for the entire time, though other accounts report that he took a swim in the sea)
Thornton Leigh Hunt
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Thornton Leigh Hunt was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
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…of The Traveller. In 1809, Leigh Hunt married Marianne Kent, whose parents were Thomas and Ann. Over the next 20 years, the couple had ten children: Thornton Leigh (1810–73), John Horatio Leigh (1812–46), Mary Florimel Leigh (1813–49), Swinburne Percy Leigh (1816–27), Percy Bysshe Shelley Leigh (1817–99), Henry…
William Makepeace Thackeray, Mr and Mrs George Henry Lewes with Thornton Leigh Hunt, date unknown, National Portrait Gallery, London