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    Leigh Hunt Biography

    JAMES HENRY LEIGHHUNT (1784–1859), English essayist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Southgate, Middlesex, on the 19th of October 1784.

    Leigh Hunt, by Henry Meyer, after John Hayter line engraving, published 1828.

    Reference Collection, NPG D3289. From the National Portrait Gallery. Used with Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

    His father, the son of a West Indian clergyman, had settled as a lawyer in Philadelphia, and his mother was the daughter of a merchant there.

    Having embraced the loyalist side, Leigh Hunt’s father was compelled to fly to England, where he took orders, and acquired some reputation as a popular preacher, but want of steadiness, want of orthodoxy, and want of interest conspired to prevent his obtaining any preferment.

    Education

    Leigh Hunt’s father was engaged by James Brydges, 3rd duke of Chandos, to act as tutor to his nephew, James Henry Leigh, after whom Leigh Hunt was called.