James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), born in Southgate Middlesex to an immigrant US preacher, was a poet, essayist and, particularly, a journalist who new many of the great literati then about and introduced several of them to each other. From 1808-21 he had edited 'The Examiner', which his brother printed, in which several of the poets were published, e.g., Byron, Moore, Shelley and Lamb. He suffered imprisonment, as did his brother, for a libel on the Prince Regent whom he called a 'fat Adonis of fifty'. He died here at what was then Chatsfield House, and is now several of Putney High Street's shops, whilst visiting Charles Weatherby Reywell, who was then the printer of 'The Examiner', when they had just been visited by Shelley's daughter-in-law.

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Chambers Biographical Dictionary

The Wandsworth Historian