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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.
Hunt's Autobiography was revised shortly before his death, and edited (1859) by Thornton Hunt, who also arranged his Correspondence (2 vols., 1862). Additional letters were printed by the Cowden Clarkes in their Recollections of Writers (1878).
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.
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.
Thornton Leigh Hunt, who was the main figure in shaping the early Daily Telegraph, died on 25th June, 1873.
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 »
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.
