Family and Education
b. 6 Nov. 1773, 1st s. of Thomas Hunt of Widdington Farm, Upavon, Wilts. and Elizabeth née Powell of Week, nr. Devizes, Wilts. educ. Tilshead, Wilts. (Mr. Cooper); Hursley, Hants (Mr. Alner); Andover g.s. (Rev. Thomas Griffith); Salisbury, Wilts. (Rev. James Evans). m. 19 Jan. 1796 IGI (Wilts.). Not 12 Jan. as Hunt specified in Mems. i. 295. (sep. 6 Sept. 1802), Ann, da. of William Halcomb, innkeeper, of Devizes, 2s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.) Oxford DNB. . suc. fa. 1797. d. 15 Feb. 1835.
Offices Held
Ensign Wilts. yeoman cav. Everleigh troop 1794 – 98; Marlborough troop 1798.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Middleton Cottage, Andover, Hants.; 36 Stamford Street, Mdx.
Notes
The best modern biography is J. Belchem, ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working Class Radicalism (1985). Hunt’s autobiography, Mems. of Henry Hunt, 3 vols. (1820-2), and R. Huish, Hist. Private and Political Life of Henry Hunt, 2 vols. (1836) are biased and unreliable. Hunt’s parliamentary career is briefly reviewed in J.W. Osborne, ‘Henry Hunt’s Career in Parliament’, Historian, xxxix (1976), 24-39.
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Commons 1820-1832
Web Title
HUNT, Henry (1773-1835)
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Oxford 1644
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Religion