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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.
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.
First editor of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. He was the son of the writer James Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne, née Kent.
The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript, newly edited by Roger Ingpen. Illustrated with portraits by Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Ingpen, Roger, 1868 or 9-1936; Hunt, Thornton Leigh, 1810-1873
Thornton Leigh Hunt, eldest son of James Leigh Hunt and Marianne Kent, was born in London on 10th September, 1810. When Thornton was two years old his father, the editor of the Examiner, was arrested and charged with libel after he published an article criticizing the Prince Regent.
(1810–73)son of Leigh Hunt; journalist who wrote for the Spectator1840–60, and other papers. In 1849 he and George Henry Lewes planned a new radical weekly, the Leader (Mar. 1850–Nov. ...
He died on 25 June 1873. Hunt married Miss Catherine Gliddon, and had a large family by her; but he was irregular in his domestic relations, and was largely responsible for the separation of George Henry Lewes and his wife. In addition to a few pamphlets, Hunt published a novel, 'The Foster Brother,' London, 1845, 8vo.
