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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.
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…1850 Lewes and his friend Thornton Leigh Hunt founded a radical weekly called The Leader, for which he wrote the literary and theatrical features. His Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences (1853) originally appeared as a series of articles in The Leader.
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. Hunt was found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
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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.
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- 28 August 1859 (aged 74), Putney, London, England
Thornton Leigh Hunt (10 September 1810 – 25 June 1873) was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Life. Hunt was the son of the writer Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne, née Kent.
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 »
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. His vivid descriptions and lyrical ...
