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
Robert Nares 1818 and then of All Hallows, London Wall until his death in 1829. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He was married three times but had no children. In 1784 he published his first philological work, "The Elements of Orthoepy". In 1793 he was founding editor of the "British Critic" with the assistance of his lifelong friend, Rev. William Beloe. In 1822 he published his principal work, "Nares' Glossary", which was described in 1859, by Halliwell and Wright, as indispensable to readers of Elizabethan Literature. Robert Nares Robert Nares (9 June 1753, York – 23