Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul FRSE (1878-1953) was a Scottish ornithologist and rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In authorship she is known as L. J. Rintoul and is closesly associated with her friend and co-author E. V. Baxter. She was born on 2 February 1878 at Lahill in Largo, Fife. She was the daughter of Major Robert Rintoul and his wife Margaret Jeffrey, daughter of John Jeffrey of Balsusney House in Kirkcaldy. Her grandfather, who died before she was born, was the botanist, John Jeffrey. With Baxter she was a strong supporter of the Women's