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Leigh Hunt

1784 - 1859

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James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the "Hunt circle". Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson to the public. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leigh Hunt is the 1,073rd most popular writer (up from 5,902nd in 2019), the 993rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,708th in 2019) and the 110th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Leigh Hunt ranks 1,073 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolay Nekrasov, W. G. Sebald, Paul Bourget, Marcus Manilius, Meša Selimović, and Ilia Chavchavadze. After him are Thomas Pynchon, Bolesław Prus, Michel Tournier, Tavo Burat, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Edith Wharton.

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Among people born in 1784, Leigh Hunt ranks 13. Before him are Karl Thomas Mozart, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, and Rafael del Riego. After him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Leo von Klenze, François Rude, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. Among people deceased in 1859, Leigh Hunt ranks 19. Before him are Washington Irving, Louis Spohr, John Brown, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Archduke John of Austria, and Bettina von Arnim. After him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Walter Hunt, Nana Sahib, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Louis Poinsot, and Carl Adolph Agardh.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leigh Hunt ranks 993 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Graves (1895), Brian O'Nolan (1911), Boris Karloff (1887), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), James Clark Ross (1800), and Alfred Molina (1953). After him are Michael Palin (1943), Harry Kane (1993), William Bradford (1590), Henry Bessemer (1813), Thomas Chippendale (1718), and Julie Walters (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Leigh Hunt ranks 110. Before him are Thomas Malory (1405), Edmund Spenser (1552), James Hadley Chase (1906), John Dryden (1631), Robert Graves (1895), and Brian O'Nolan (1911). After him are James Thomson (1700), Tony Buzan (1942), Oliver Sacks (1933), Len Deighton (1929), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), and David Lodge (1935).

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