William Hunt (priest)

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Name William Hunt Role Priest		Died 1931 Education Harrow School
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William Hunt (1842 – 1931) was an English clergyman and historian.

Life

He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was vicar of Congresbury, Somerset from 1867 to 1882, and then went to London as a reviewer and contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. He was President of the Royal Historical Society from 1905 to 1909.

He wrote:

The Somerset Diocese, Bath and Wells (1885)

The English Church in the Middle Ages (1888)

The English Church, 597-1066 (1899), the first volume in a series of which he was editor

the tenth volume of Political History of England (1905–07), of which he was joint editor with R. Lane-Poole

The Irish Parliament (1907), edited from a contemporary manuscript.

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