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Hunt, Thomas
The following data is extracted from Hunt Family Records.
THOMAS (1627?-1688) , lawyer: s. of Richard H-; b. in the Austin Friars in London; was successively scholar, fellow and M. A. of Queen's College, Cambridge; admitted to Gray's Inn, 1650; appointed clerk of assize to the Oxford circuit, 1659; he was ejected from that office upon the Restoration in the following year, and from 1660 to 1683 lived chiefly at Banbury, where he not only practiced law, but acted as steward on the estates of both the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Norfolk; appeared among the counsel at the trial of Lord Stafford, 1680. of the four senior fellows of Hart Hall when it was incorporated as Hertford College; soon after Sir Isaac Newton's death in 1726, he became tutor in Lord Macclesfield's family; appointed Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford, 1738; became regius professor of Hebrew ,end canon of the sixth stall in Christ Church Cathedral, 1747; elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1747; fellow of the Royal Society-, 1740; died at Oxford, 1774; there is a tablet to his memory in the nave of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; he was the intimate friend of Dr. Richard Newton, Dr. Kennicott and Dedridge; for some years he was closely associated with Dr. Gregory Sharpe in his oriental studies.
Source: Hunt Family Records
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