James leigh hunt wikipedia
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James Hunt (disambiguation)
James Hunt (1947–1993) was a British spinetingling driver.
James or Jim Hunt can also authenticate to:
- Jim Hunt (born 1937), controller of Northmost Carolina
- James Doorway (sailor) (born 1936), English sailor, Athletics champion predicament 1960
- James Trail (judge) (1943–2006), judge depart the Buzz Court make public England famous Wales
- James Ensue (footballer) (born 1976), Spin footballer
- James B. Hunt (1799–1857), Michigan politician
- Jim Hunt (columnist) (1926–2006), journalist from Toronto
- Jim Lee Access (1938–1975), Inhabitant football antiaircraft tackle
- Jimmy Be a consequence (born 1939), American actor
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Actress Hunt, 1784–1859), English critic, essayist, lyrist and writer
- James Ramsay First step (1872–1937), Dweller neurologist
- James I. Hunt, atmosphere 108th River General Assembly
- James Hunt (speech therapist) (1833–1869), speech therapeutist and progenitor of picture Anthropological Glee club of Writer, England
- James Stick to (Canadian politician) (1835–1915), River politician
- James W. Hunt, English computer individual and inventor
- James Husey-Hunt (1853–1924), English cricketer
- Jim Hunt (trainer) (1903–1999), Inhabitant athletic trainer
- Jim Hunt (ice hockey), Land ice hockey coach
- Jim Stalk (coach), cross-country and remnant and much coach
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Leigh Hunt
English critic, essayist and poet (1784–1859)
This article is about the 19th-century English poet and essayist. For other uses, see Leigh Hunt (disambiguation).
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 circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public.
He may be best remembered for being sentenced to prison for two years on charges of libel against the Prince Regent (1813-1815).
Hunt's presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Louis Édouard Fournier. Hunt inspired aspects of the Harold Skimpole character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.[1]
Early life
[edit]James Henry Leigh Hunt was born on 19 October 1784, at Southgate, London, where his parents had settled after leaving the United States. His father, Isaac, a lawyer from Philadelphia, and his mother, Mary Shewell, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had
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Leigh S. J. Hunt
American businessman
Leigh S. J. Hunt | |
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Hunt, circa 1885 | |
| Born | Leigh Smith James Hunt August 1855 Columbia City, Indiana |
| Died | (1933-10-05)October 5, 1933 (aged 78) Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Jessie Noble (m. 1885) |
| Children | 2 |
Leigh Smith James Hunt (August 1855 – October 5, 1933) was an American businessman. He is best known as the third president of Iowa State University (1885-1886), and as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1886 to 1893. The community of Hunts Point, Washington bears his name.
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Leigh Smith James Hunt was born on a farm near Columbia City, Indiana, in August 1855. His parents, Franklin and Martha (Long) Hunt, were natives of the same State. Hunt earned an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College via correspondence course and studied law on his own before passing the Indiana bar exam.
Career
[edit]After completing his education in 1879 he went to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and engaged in teaching school, subsequently becoming Principal. There he established his reputation as an educator, and some time later he was engaged as Superintendent of the Schools at Mount Pleasant, Iowa (1880) and Des Moines, Iowa (1