William Hunt (priest)
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William Hunt(1842–1931) was anEnglishclergymanandhistorian.
Life[edit]
He was educated atHarrow SchoolandTrinity College, Oxford.He wasvicarofCongresbury,Somersetfrom 1867 to 1882, and then went toLondonas a reviewer and contributor to theDictionary of National Biography.He was President of theRoyal Historical Societyfrom 1905 to 1909. Hunt wrote over 200 of the Anglo-Saxon entries in theDictionary of National Biography,including forWulfstan 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 ofPolitical History of England(1905–07), of which he was joint editor withR. 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.ISSN0263-6751.JSTOR44510977.
Further reading[edit]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Hunt, William (1842–1931), historian and biographer by Robert W. Dunning.
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