William Hunt (priest)

William Hunt (1842–1931) was an English clergyman and historian.

Life[]

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.

Works[]

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[]

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• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Further reading[]

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Hunt, William (1842–1931), historian and biographer by Robert W. Dunning.

External links[]

• Works by William Hunt at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Hunt at Internet Archive

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