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
William Rintoul Councils of the Chemical Society and Institute of Chemistry, the Safety in Mines Research Board, the Chemistry Research Board, the Research Committee of the Midland Railway and the British Standards Institution. From 1930, Rintoul was a member of the Council of the Faraday Society and in October 1934 was elected as its president. He died at home in Ardrossan, Scotland, after a prolonged illness. Rintoul married twice, first Lottie Edwards and two-year later Jess Isabel Robertson. He had two sons and a daughter from the first marriage. William Rintoul William Rintoul OBE (1870 – 25 August 1936) was a British