Education
There he was apprenticed as a young man to the printer Henry Reynell.
There he was apprenticed as a young man to the printer Henry Reynell.
Born in Philadelphia to Isaac Hunt and Mary Hunt, he was taken to London as a child. Known as a staunch, outspoken, and uncompromising radical, Hunt was more than once imprisoned for his publication of items that were considered libelous, even seditious. He was also known for publishing radical or controversial works no one else would touch.
Among the miscellany, including one book by Jeremy Bentham, there were others more obviously incendiary or scandalous, such as some of Byron"s later works, including The Vision of Judgment, Hazlitt"s Liber Amoris, and writings of both Percy and Mary Shelley.
They were finally reconciled in 1840. John Hunt spent his last decades retired to Upper Chaddon near Taunton, Somerset.
After many years in poor health, he died in Brompton, Middlesex, on 7 September 1848.