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
Gordon Rintoul elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Gordon Rintoul Gordon Rintoul (born 29 May 1955) CBE FRSE is Director of National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rintoul was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955 and was educated at Allan Glen's School, a science-orientated school in the city. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh and received a PhD from the University of Manchester in the history of science and technology. In 1984, he was appointed as curator of the Colour Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Between 1987 and 1998, he was Director of Catalyst, a museum in