William Hunt (priest)
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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. Hunt wrote over 200 of the Anglo-Saxon entries in the Dictionary of National Biography, including for Wulfstan the Cantor.[1]
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
- ^ 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. ISSN 0263-6751.
Further reading
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Hunt, William (1842–1931), historian and biographer by Robert W. Dunning.
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