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
Douglas Rintoul His script for his theatre production "Elegy" won a Royal National Theatre Foundation Playwright's Award. His devised production "1001 Nights" for the Unicorn Theatre was nominated for the Off West End Award for Best Production for Young People. Douglas Rintoul Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright. He is the artistic director of The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, he founded and ran the national touring company Transport (2017 - 2017) and is a longstanding associate of Complicite. Douglas was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and grew up in Canterbury and Colchester. He read Drama & Theatre Arts at