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
David Rintoul 1986, he recorded unabridged readings of 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels for Chivers Audio Books. He also later recorded Nobody Lives Forever and Licence to Kill, written by John Gardner. Whilst reading the prose with his usual speaking voice, Rintoul speaks Bond's dialogue with a mild Scottish accent. He also narrated Robert Harris's "Dictator", the final volume of his Cicero trilogy. Rintoul took over this role from Bill Wallis, who had read the previous two books, "Imperium" and "Lustrum", but died two years before "Dictator"'s publication. He has narrated two young people's books, "The Boggart" (2009) and "The