John Hunt, D.D. (21 January 1827 – 12 April 1907)

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/ref> was a Scottish cleric, theologian and historian. He was known for his liberal views, and his work ''Religious Thought in England''.

Life

He was born in the

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parish of

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, Scotland, and matriculated at

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in 1847. He was ordained deacon in the

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in 1855, and priest 1857. Hunt was curate of Deptford,

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from 1855 to 1859; and in churches in and about London until 1877, when, on nomination of

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, he was appointed vicar of Otford, in

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. Hunt was on the staff of '' The Contemporary Review'' from 1867 to 1877, and was a contributor to other periodicals. In theology he was

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. He was created D.D. of the University of St Andrews in 1878.

Works

Hunt was the author of: *''Poems from the German'', London, 1852; *''Luther's Spiritual Songs translated'', 1858; *''Essay on Pantheism'', 1866, published at the St Ives Press by the Rev. William Lang; the later ''Pantheism and Christianity'', 1884, was a revision; *An incomplete edition of the poems of Robert Wild, 1870, with a historical and biographical preface, and a dedication in which Hunt refers to time as a curate in

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; *''Religious Thought in England'', 1870–78, 3 vols.; *''Contemporary Essays in Theology'', 1873.

Family

Hunt married E. Thorp, or Eliza Sheppard Meadows (born 1845).Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, ''Hunt'' (2)
/ref> She wrote as "Spes" and was the author of ''Legends of St. Ives'' (1891). Her novel ''The Wards of Plotinus'' appeared in 1880, under the name "Mrs. John Hunt"; and a number of chapters in it were written by Hunt. She died in 1890.

References

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