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
Stephen Glover (columnist) Stephen Glover (columnist) Stephen Glover (born 13 January 1952) is a British journalist and columnist for the "Daily Mail". He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Mansfield College, Oxford. He co-founded "The Independent" in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds. All three had previously been journalists on "The Daily Telegraph" and had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Between 1986 and 1990 Glover was Foreign Editor of "The Independent". In 1990 he became the founding editor of "The Independent on Sunday". In 1992 Glover helped Richard Ingrams launch "The Oldie" magazine with fellow journalists