Journalist. He was a Victorian-England journalist who was the co-editor along with Edward Levy-Lawson of the British daily broadsheet newspaper "The Daily Telegraph." He was the oldest son of the author, James Leigh Hunt, and his wife, Marianne Kent. When he was two years old, his father published an editorial, which was an attack on the Prince Regent, who would become George IV, calling him a fat "Adonis" of 50. His father and uncle were found guilty of slander and were sentenced to imprisonment in Surrey Gaol from February 3, 1813, to February 2, 1815, and ordered to pay a heavy fine. This lack of freedom of the press impacted his view of journalism. His father sent him to Italy to study art but he chose a career in journalism. He found positions at a host of newspapers, including the "Constitutional," "North Cheshire Reformer," "Glasgow Argus" in Scotland, "Spectator" and "Morning Chronicle" before "The Daily Telegraph." In 1850, he and his author friend, George Lewes, founded a radical weekly called "The Leader." Lewes wrote the literary and theatrical features for "The Leader," including his 1853 "Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences," which originally appeared as a series of articles. After being invited by Joseph Moses Levy to join the waning "Daily Telegraph and Courier" on September 17, 1855, he and Levy's son, Edward, launched "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world," which became the best-selling newspaper in London at the price of a penny. With him as editor, the newspaper changed to "The Daily Telegraph," publishing articles supporting arts and science, banning of corporal punishment in the military, Parliamentary reforms, the campaign against capital punishment, and more progressive ideas. In 1839, he married Katharine Gliddon, and the couple had nine children. In 1849, he became romantically involved with Lewes' young wife, Agnes Jervis Lewes, as Lewes and his wife practiced an open marriage. He and Lewes' wife had a son together in April of 1850, but Lewes was listed on the birth certificate as the father even though he was not. After the second child was born between him and Agnes, Lewes filed for a divorce on the grounds of adultery, naming Leigh Hunt as the third party. The divorce was refused as the marriage was open, and Lewes had accepted responsibility for the first child, knowing it was not his. Besides their son, he and Agnes had three daughters together. By 1854, his friend Lewes gained scandalous fame for being the long-time cohabiting lover of Mary Ann Evans, who was better known as the author "George Eliot." In the National Gallery, a pencil drawing, "Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Lewes with Thornton Leigh Hunt" by William Makepeace Thackeray, is on exhibit. Besides journalism, Thornton Leigh Hunt wrote the introduction and postscript of his father's autobiography, which was published in 1903 posthumously. He wrote a 95-page published report, "Canada and South Australia," in 1839, collected and published his father's poems in 1860, and edited his father's letters for publication in 1862.