Hunt

Hunt, HENRY, surnamed 'Orator Hunt,' was born at Upavon, in Wiltshire, on 6th November 1773. He was a well-to-do farmer, but in 1800 his hot temper embroiled him with Lord Bruce, the commandant of the Wiltshire yeomanry, which brought him six weeks' imprisonment. He came out of gaol a hot Radical, and spent the rest of his life travelling about the country addressing the people on behalf of the repeal of the Corn Laws and as an advocate of parliamentary reform. In 1819, on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre, he delivered a speech, which cost him three years' imprisonment. He died at Alresford, in Hampshire, on 13th February 1835.