William Hunt (priest)
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William Hunt (1842–1931) was an English clergyman and historian.
Life
[edit]He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was vicar of Congresbury, Somerset from 1867 to 1882, and then went to London as a reviewer and contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. He was President of the Royal Historical Society from 1905 to 1909. Hunt wrote over 200 of the Anglo-Saxon entries in the Dictionary of National Biography, including for Wulfstan the Cantor.[1]
Works
[edit]He wrote:
- The Somerset Diocese, Bath and Wells (1885)
- Bristol (1887), part of the 'Historic Towns' series edited by Hunt and Prof. Edward Augustus Freeman.
- The English Church in the Middle Ages (1888)
- The English Church, 597-1066 (1899), the first volume in a series of which he was editor
- the tenth volume of Political History of England (1905–07), of which he was joint editor with R. Lane-Poole
- The Irish Parliament (1907), edited from a contemporary manuscript.
References
[edit]- ^ Forbes, Helen Foxhall; Ammon, Matthias; Boyle, Elizabeth; Doyle, Conan T.; Evan, Peter D.; Fera, Rosa Maria; Gazzoli, Paul; Imhoff, Helen; Matheson, Anna; Rixon, Sophie; Roach, Levi (2008). "Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (2004)". Anglo-Saxon England. 37: 183–232. doi:10.1017/S0263675109990202. ISSN 0263-6751. JSTOR 44510977.
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Further reading
[edit]- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Hunt, William (1842–1931), historian and biographer by Robert W. Dunning.
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