John Hunt, D.D. (21 January 1827 – 12 April 1907)[1][2] was a Scottish cleric, theologian and historian. He was known for his liberal views, and his work Religious Thought in England.
Hunt was curate of Deptford, Sunderland from 1855 to 1859; and in churches in and about London until 1877, when, on nomination of Dean Stanley, he was appointed vicar of Otford, in Kent.[1]
Hunt was on the staff of The Contemporary Review from 1867 to 1877, and was a contributor to other periodicals. In theology he was liberal. He was created D.D. of the University of St Andrews in 1878.[1]
Essay on Pantheism, 1866, published at the St Ives Press by the Rev. William Lang;[3] the later Pantheism and Christianity, 1884, was a revision;
An incomplete edition of the poems of Robert Wild, 1870,[4] with a historical and biographical preface, and a dedication in which Hunt refers to time as a curate in St Ives, Huntingdonshire;[5][6]
Religious Thought in England, 1870–78, 3 vols.;
Contemporary Essays in Theology, 1873.
Family
Hunt married E. Thorp,[2] or Eliza Sheppard Meadows (born 1845).[7] 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.[2]
^William Page, Granville Proby, S. Inskip Ladds (editors) (1932). "Parishes: St Ives". A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 18 June 2012. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Encyclopedia of Living Divines and Christian Workers of all Denominations in Europe and America (1887)
