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HUME, Rev. Abraham (son of Thomas F. Hume). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam. 1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47; prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool 1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6; sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844; author of The learned societies and printing clubs of the United Kingdom 1847, new ed. 1853; Ancient Meols, or some account of the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts 1863–66 with portrait of author; Remarks on the Irish dialect of the English language 1878, and more than 100 other books. d. All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. J. C. Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume, Liverpool 1887; Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1876) 474.

HUME, Alexander (son of Walter Hume, a retail trader). b. Kelso 1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40; London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of Scottish songs 1835; English songs and ballads 1838; Songs and poems, chiefly Scottish 1845. d. Northampton, May 1851. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii, 182–94 (1856).

HUME, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St. Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.; arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish lyrics and songs of his own; edited The lyric gems of Scotland, Glasgow 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. d. Glasgow 4 Feb. 1859.

HUME, Alexander Hamilton (son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849, Australian settler). b. Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June 1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814; accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains 1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec. 1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824, rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of A brief statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Philip 1855, 3 ed. 1874. d. Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19 April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 98; Bonwick’s Port Philip Settlement (1883) 80–93, portrait.

HUME, Sir Gustavus (2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849). b. 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep. 1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876, lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour; knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. d. 21 Royal York crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.

HUME, John Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97; entered medical department of army, inspector general 3 Dec. 1818 to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany. 1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years; D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1 Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. 9 Curzon st. London 1 March 1857. Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 212 (1878).

HUME, Joseph (son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster). b. Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany. 1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex 1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. d. Burnley hall, Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Joseph Hume a memorial [a poem]. By J. B. Hume (1855); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 64–70; Reminiscences of 50 years. By Mark Boyd (1871) 281–92; J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 66–79; St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 198–210; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840), 55 portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 29–31, portrait.

HUMFREY, Lebbeus Charles (eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey, R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833). b. about 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823, bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader; counsel to Times newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. d. 11 Great Queen st. Westminster 11 May 1852. bur. beneath chapel of Lincoln’s inn. G.M. xxxviii, 95–6 (1852).

HUMPHERY, John (eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London). b. 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death; sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 1842–3. d. Battersea Rise, north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. I.L.N. ii, 279 (1843), portrait.

HUMPHREY, Thomas. b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v, 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.

HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (son of James Humphreys of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40; illustrated Westwood’s British butterflies 1841; Loudon’s British Wild Flowers 1856 and other books; author of The Coins of England 1846; The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols. 1847; The origin and progress of the art of writing 1853; A history of the art of printing 1867 and 20 other books. d. 7 Westbourne sq. London 10 June 1879. Academy 21 June 1879 p. 550.

HUMPHREYS, Sir John (son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton, Middlesex). b. Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex 1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. 20 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.

HUMPHREYS, William. b. Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.; returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S. stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. d. at Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865. W. S. Baker’s American Engravers (1875) 84–86.

HUMPHRY, Joseph. b. 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C. 1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug. 1860 when he retired. d. Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.

Note.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in existence since 1272.

HUMPHRY, Rev. William Gilson (eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry, barrister). b. Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833, Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer 1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1847, 2 ed. 1854; An historical treatise on the book of common prayer 1853, 6 ed. 1885; A commentary on the revised version of the New Testament for English readers 1882, 2 ed. 1888 and 20 other books. d. 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq. London 10 Jany. 1886.

HUMPIDGE, Thomas Samuel. b. Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth, Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants, all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to Philos. Trans. and Proceedings; translated H. Kolbe’s A short text-book of inorganic chemistry 1884. d. The college, Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. Journal Chemical soc. (1888) 513–18.

HUNGATE, William Anning. b. 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July 1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27 April 1831. d. 18 Feb. 1852.

HUNLOKE, Sir Henry John Joseph, 6 Baronet. b. 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his death. d. Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.

HUNNUM, Robert (son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton kennel). b. Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr. Ralph’s Great Coat’; second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London 30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by subscription. The Book of Sports, ii, 42–6 (1843), portrait; New Sporting Mag. v, 4–5 (1833), portrait.

HUNT, Andrew. b. Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. d. 31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.

HUNT, Edward (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Hammersmith, Middlesex 29 Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851; discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition 1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858; partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co. in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs. 1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. d. Whalley range, Manchester 12 Aug. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 476–7 (1887).

HUNT, Ellen St. John. b. Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to The Bible class mag. and to The Sunday school teachers’ mag. under pseudonym of Ion; author of Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow. By E.S.J.H. 1862, Second series 1866. d. Norwich 11 March 1864. Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine (1866).

HUNT, Frederick Knight. b. Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed in printing office of Morning Herald 1830; clerk to a barrister in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836; studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840; projected the Medical Times which he edited 28 Sep. 1839; surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of Illustrated London News; sub-editor of Pictorial Times; edited Hunt’s London Journal 1844; assistant editor Daily News Jany. 1846, and editor 1851 to death; author of The book of art 1846; The Rhine, its scenery and associations 1845; The fourth estate, contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols. 1850. d. Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clements, i, 245 (1868).

HUNT, Rev. George (son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth). b. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature 1819; translated The book of Job 1825; Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn Ghoráb 1848. d. Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.

HUNT, George Ward (eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst, Berks.) b. Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851, bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29 Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty 21 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Homburg 29 July 1877. bur. Homburg 30 July. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii, 93, 162 (1882), portrait; Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp. 99, 113, portrait.

HUNT, Henry. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at 68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for Children; author of On the nature and treatment of tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders 1844; On the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion 1854. d. 25 May 1877 aged 75.

HUNT, Sir Henry Arthur (son of James Hunt of Westminster). b. 1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. d. The Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, Holdsworth (youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of Dartmouth). b. Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris; barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879, treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of French Institute 1851. d. 20 Park crescent, Portland place, London 26 April 1883.

HUNT, James (son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51). b. Swanage, Dorset 1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London 1854, hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited Anthropological Rev. 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883; F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech 1859; Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment 1861, 7 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. Ore Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., ii, 198–200 (1869).

HUNT, James Henry Leigh (son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57). b. Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital 1792–99; started with his brother John, The Examiner a weekly paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called The Reflector which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in The Examiner on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3 Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats, C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited The Indicator, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5; edited The Liberal 1822–3, 2 vols.; The Literary Examiner, 27 numbers; The Companion 1828, 28 numbers; The Chat of the Week 1830, 13 numbers; The Tatler a daily sheet entirely written by himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; Leigh Hunt’s London Journal 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and The Monthly Repository July 1837 to March 1838; produced A Legend of Florence at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847; published Leigh Hunt’s Journal 1850 to March 1851; author of Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries 1828; The Town 2 vols. 1848; The autobiography of L. Hunt 1850, 3 vols. new ed. 1860; Table talk 1851 and very numerous other books. d. at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st. Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sep., monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols. (1862); Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron, 2 ed. (1828) 55–408, portrait; W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of British poets, ii, 347–67 (1847); T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 340–7; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 316–33, portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 242–56, portrait; L. Hutton’s Literary landmarks of London, 4 ed. (1888) 144–9; F. E. Baines’ Hampstead (1890) 358, portrait.

Note.—He is drawn in Bleak House 1853 as Harold Skimpole and in A. W. Pinero’s play Lady Bountiful 1891 as Roderick Heron. His dau. Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt was granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861 and d. Hammersmith 3 Feb. 1872.

HUNT, Rev. John Higgs. b. 1780; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; edited The Critical Review, reviewed Byron’s Hours of Idleness in it Sep. 1807; V. of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire 20 March 1823 to death; published Tasso’s Jerusalem delivered, with notes and occasional illustrations 2 vols. 1818, reprinted in E. Sanford’s The works of the British poets, vols. 48, 49 (1819); said to have written a work upon Cosmo the Great. d. Weedon Beck 17 Nov. 1859.

HUNT, Joseph. Kept a tavern in London; a public singer at Naval Coffee house, St. Martin’s lane, London; William Probert and John Thurtell murdered William Weare at Gill’s hill lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, Hunt was found guilty as an accessory before the murder and sentenced to death 7 Jany. 1824 but eventually transported for life; court keeper of assize court, Bathurst, N.S.W. 1839–59; living at Bathurst 1859; father of a famous female singer living in 1864. Narrative of murder of Mr. W. Weare, the confession of Hunt and the execution of Thurtell (1824), portrait.

Note.—John Thurtell was hanged at Hertford 9 Jany. 1824, Wm. Probert escaped by turning King’s evidence, but was hanged at the Old Bailey 20 June 1825 for horse-stealing; Thurtell’s gig used by him in going to Gill’s hill lane, was exhibited in a piece called The Gamblers produced at the Surrey theatre, Jany. 1824.

HUNT, Robert (son of Robert Hunt lost in H.M.S. Mocheron 1807). b. Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) 6 Sep. 1807; studied medicine in London; chemist and druggist Chapel st. Penzance 1833–4; sec. of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1840–5, pres. 1859; keeper of the mining records office 1845 till it was abolished 1883; lecturer on mechanical science in Royal school of mines 1851–3, lecturer on experimental physics 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; The Miners’ Assoc. of Cornwall and Devon was instituted at a meeting called by him 1859 and opened 1861; a comr. on inquiry on quantity of coal remaining 1866; made researches on solar rays, electrical phenomena in mineral veins and photography; edited Ure’s Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines 1859, 1867 and 1875, three editions; author of A popular treatise on the art of photography 1841; Researches on light 1844, 2 ed. 1854; Elementary physics 1851, new ed. 1855; Popular romances of West of England 2 vols. 1865; British mining 1884, 2 ed. 1887; compiler and editor of annual blue books on Mineral statistics 1855–84. d. 26 St. Leonard’s ter. Chelsea 17 Oct. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 259–60, 1238; Athenæum 22 Oct. 1887 pp. 541–2; Times 20 Oct. 1887 p. 5.

HUNT, Thomas. b. Dorset 1802; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; invented a method of curing stammering, which he practised at 224 Regent st. London 1827 to death; Sir John Forbes sent him pupils 1828–51; his pupils subscribed for his bust in marble which was modelled by Joseph Durham and exhibited in the R.A. 1849. d. Godlingstone near Swanage, Dorset 18 Aug. 1851. James Hunt’s Treatise on stammering, with memoir of T. Hunt (1854) 27–69, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. July 1859 pp. 1–14, By Charles Kingsley.

HUNT, Thomas Newman. b. 1806; merchant of firm of Newman, Hunt & Co. 12 New Broad st. city of London; a director of Bank of England 1856–83, deputy governor 1866–7, governor 1867–9; chairman of Public works loan commission. d. 79 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1884.

HUNT, Thornton Leigh (eld. son of J. H. Leigh Hunt 1784–1859). b. London 10 Sep. 1810; studied drawing and painting; sub-editor of The Constitutional, morning paper 15 Sep. 1836 which lasted to 1 July 1837; edited the North Cheshire Reformer at Chester; The Argus at Glasgow to 1840; one of chief contributors to Spectator 1840–60; one of founders of Leader 1850; one of chief contributors to Globe; on the Daily Telegraph as acting editor 1855–72; author of The Foster Brother 1845; The rationale of railway administration 1846; Unity of the iron network, the argument for the break of gauge 1846; edited his father’s Autobiography 1860, Works 1860, and Correspondence 1862. d. 41 Victoria road, Kilburn, Middlesex 25 June 1873. Athenæum 28 June 1873 p. 825; Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 98, 235, 241, 267 (1887).

HUNT, Vere Dawson De Vere (son of Vere Hunt). b. 7 July 1829; captain inland transport corps; author of The horse and its master, with hints on breeding, breaking, etc. 1859; England’s horses for peace and war 1874. d. 9 Dec. 1878.