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HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 934 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835) ,
English
  politician, commonly called Orator Hunt," was born at Widdington Farm, Upavon, Wiltshire, on the 6th of November 1773. While following the vocation of a farmer he made the acquaintance of John Horne Tooke, with whose advanced views he soon began to sympathize. At the general election of 18o6 he came to the front in Wiltshire; he soon associated himself with William Cobbett, and in 1812 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Bristol. He was one of the speakers at the
meeting
  held in Spa Fields, London, in November 1816; in 1818 he tried in vain to become member of
parliament
  for Westminster, and in 1820 for Preston. In August 1819 Hunt presided over the
great
 
meeting
  in St Peter's Field, Manchester, which developed into a riot and was called the " Peterloo massacre. " He was arrested and was tried for conspiracy, being sentenced to imprisonment for two years and a half. In August 183o he was elected member of
parliament
  for Preston, but he lost his seat in 1833. While in parliament Hunt presented a
petition
  in favour of women's rights, probably the first of this kind, and he moved for a repeal of the corn
laws
 . He died on the 15th of
February
  1835. During his imprisonment Hunt wrote his Memoirs which were published in 1820.
See R. Huish,
Life
  of Hunt (1836); and S.
Bamford
 , Passages in the
Life
  of a Radical (2nd ed., 1893).


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