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HENRY HUNT (1i73-1835)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:HUNT (1i73-1835)  , See also:English politician, commonly called Orator See also:Hunt," was See also:born at Widdington See also:Farm, Upavon, See also:Wiltshire, on the 6th of See also:November 1773 . While following the vocation of a See also:farmer he made the acquaintance of See also:John See also:Horne See also:Tooke, with whose advanced views he soon began to sympathize . At the See also:general See also:election of 18o6 he came to the front in Wiltshire; he soon associated himself with See also:William See also:Cobbett, and in 1812 he was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for See also:Bristol . He was one of the speakers at the See also:meeting held in See also:Spa See also:Fields, See also:London, in November 1816; in 1818 he tried in vain to become member of See also:parliament for See also:Westminster, and in 1820 for See also:Preston . In See also:August 1819 Hunt presided over the See also:great meeting in St See also:Peter's See also:Field, See also:Manchester, which See also:developed into a See also:riot and was called the " Peterloo See also:massacre . " He was arrested and was tried for See also:conspiracy, being sentenced to imprisonment for two years and a See also: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 See also:petition in favour of See also:women's rights, probably the first of this See also:kind, and he moved for a See also:repeal of the See also:corn See also:laws . He died on the 15th of See also:February 1835 . During his imprisonment Hunt wrote his See also:Memoirs which were published in 1820 . See R . Huish, See also:Life of Hunt (1836); and S .

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Bamford, Passages in the Life of a See also:Radical (2nd ed., 1893) .

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