John Hunt (publisher)

Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fourth of eight children (five of whom survived to adulthood) born to Isaac Hunt and Mary Hunt. He was taken to London in or about 1777. He was an elder brother of the poet and essayist Leigh Hunt and a brother of the critic Robert Hunt. ==Career==

On 1 February 1791 he was apprenticed to the printer Henry Reynell. This was followed by The Reflector, the Yellow Dwarf, The Liberal, and, the most famous and influential, The Examiner, edited by his brother Leigh Hunt. He was also known for publishing radical or controversial works no one else would touch. Among the miscellany, including one book by Jeremy Bentham, there were others more obviously incendiary or scandalous, such as some of Byron's later works, including The Vision of Judgment, Hazlitt's Liber Amoris, and writings of both Percy and Mary Shelley. ==Personal life and demise==

Hunt and his wife Sarah Hoole "Sally" (née Hammond), the brothers were not on speaking terms because of, as they later agreed, a misunderstanding over financial matters. John Hunt spent his last decades retired to Upper Chaddon near Taunton, Somerset. After many years in poor health, he died in Brompton, Middlesex, on 7 September 1848. == References ==