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Hunt, Henry
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Hunt, Henry, 1773–1835, English radical politician. A powerful orator, popular with the laboring classes, Hunt was quarrelsome and stubborn but a sincere proponent of electoral and other reforms. He took part with Arthur Thistlewood Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770–1820, British conspirator. He acquired revolutionary views while traveling in France and America and, after his return to England, joined the revolutionary Spencean Society (see Spence, Thomas) in London.
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 in the Spa Fields meeting (1816) and gained his chief notice by presiding at the meeting in Manchester that ended in the Peterloo massacre Peterloo massacre, public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for
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 (1819). He was imprisoned for two years, after a trial of doubtful legality. Hunt sat in Parliament (1830–32) but exerted little influence.


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King Henry VIII Under-12 rugby squad (back, from left) Tom Lea, Henry Hunt, Matthew Gay, Prashant Agarwal, Sarban Ark; middle: Richard Fairlie, Raj Grewal, George Nicholls, Coner Henry-Blake, Jake McLannaghan, William Blundell, Josh Jelley; front: Alex Richards, Josh Phillips, Alex Caron, Aaron Nicely, Josh Boorman, Oliver Hopley (capt), Joe Pearson, Tristan Caldwell, Dan Harrison, Nathan O'Shea.
Henry Hunt, stationed in Florida, who in April 1818 wrote his wife in New York that he was sending her money: "I herein enclose the half of a $50 bill of the United States Bank N313 payable at the Savannah Branch to G.
But the plaque made no mention of those cut down and killed when the local volunteer yeomanry was ordered to charge and break up the meeting, whose principal speaker was the famed orator Henry Hunt.
 
 
 
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