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Rh HUMPHREYS, Thomas Basil, Canadian politician, b. in Liverpool, England, in 1840. He was educated in his native city, emigrated to British Columbia, and sat in its legislature before the union with Canada. He was appointed a member of the executive council and minister of finance and agriculture in February, 1876, but resigned in July of that year, and, on the resignation of the Elliott administration in 1878, he was appointed provincial secretary. He represented Lillooetrin the provincial parliament from 1871 till 1875, when he was elected for Victoria.

HUMPTON, Richard, soldier, b. in Yorkshire, England, about 1733 ; d. in Chester county, Pa., 21 Dec, 1804. He was a captain in the British army, and was in the attack on St. Malo. While stationed in the West Indies, he resigned his com- mission, came to Pennsylvania, and settled on one of the upper branches of the Susquehanna. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the "flying camp, 16 July, 1776, and was afterward trans- ferred to the colonelcy of the 11th Pennsylvania regiment, took part in the battle of Brandywine, and at the close of the war was colonel of the 2d regiment. After peace was declared he settled on a farm, and was appointed adjutant-general of mi- litia, which post he held till his death.

HUN, Edward Reynolds, physician, b. in Al- bany, N. Y., 17 April, 1842 ; d. in Stamford, Conn., 14 March, 1880. He was graduated at Harvard in 1863, studied in Albany medical college, re- ceived his diploma from the medical department of Columbia in 1866. Subsequently he studied in Paris and London, and settled in practice in Al- bany. Dr. Hun was a member of numerous medi- cal societies, physician to several hospitals, and special pathologist to the New York state lunatic asylum at Utica. He translated C. Bouchard's "Secondary Degenerations of the Spinal Cord" (Utica, 1869), and contributed numerous articles to medical journals, which include "Trichina Spi- ralis " (1869) ; " Pulse of the Insane " (1870) ; and " Haematoma Auris " (1870).

HUNGERFORD, John Pratt, soldier, b. in Leeds, Westmoreland co., Va., in 1760 ; d. in Twi- ford, Westmoreland co., Va., 21 Dec, 1833. He was an officer in the Revolution, and served for several sessions in the Virginia house of delegates. In 1811 he was elected to congress as a Democrat, but served only a month, his election being success- fully contested by John Taliaferro. Hungerford was elected to the next congress, and served from 1813 till 1817. He was in the war of 1812-'14, be- came brigadier-general of militia on the Potomac, and was at one time encamped with his forces on Arlington heights. He also commanded in sup- port of Com. David Porter's artillery in September, 1814 at White House, on Pamunky river, Va.

HUNGERFORD, William, lawyer, b. in East Haddam, Conn., 22 Nov., 1786; d. in Hartford, Conn., 15 Jan., 1873. He was graduated at Yale in 1809. and studied law with Roger and Matthew Griswold in Lyme. He was admitted to the bar in New London in 1812, and practised in Had- lyme till 1819, when he removed to Hartford, at- taining high rank in his profession. He repre- sented East Haddam in the legislature, after his removal to Hartford was several times a delegate from that city, and was a member of the con- stitutional convention of Connecticut in 1818. He was a Federalist, a Whig, and in later years a Re- publican. Mr. Hungerford withdrew from general practice in 1860, but continued the management of his large property until a few months before his death. Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1856.

HUNNEUS, George, Chilian statesman, b. in Santiago, 30 Aug., 1831. He was graduated at the university of his native city in 1855, and in 1856 was appointed professor of jurisprudence and po- litical science. In 1858 he was elected to congress for the province of Cauquenes, and was known as one of the most elegant orators in defence of lib- eral principles. Next year he was elected president of the lower house, and became prominent as a leader of the opposition against the conservative 'government, for which reason he was banished by President Montt. He came to the United States, together with his companion in exile, Vicuna Mac- kenna, and studied the institutions of the republic. At the close of Montt's presidential term, in 1861, Hunneus returned to Chili, was elected to congress, and became speaker. The new president, Jose Joaquin Perez, desiring to form an independent ministry from moderate members of both political parties, called Hunneus as secretary of public in- struction and justice, and as such he introduced great improvements in both branches, and greatly augmented the number of public schools. In 1865 he was elected to the senate, and contributed to the termination of the war between Spain and the Pacific republics. In 1870 he was secretary of the interior, and was specially commissioned* by the government to sign a treaty of friendship and commerce with the Austro-Hungarian envoy, Rear- Admiral Baron A. de Petz. In 1872 he was presi- dent of the senate, and in 1873 was given by Presi- dent Errazuriz the portfolio of the treasury, and in 1874 he became secretary of foreign affairs, at the same time occupying professorships in the uni- versity. Since the resignation of President Erra- zuriz in 1876, Hunneus has continued to take an active part in politics as senator, and during the war against Peru and Bolivia he was a member of the government council for the direction of the war. He was also appointed rector of the Uni- versity of Santiago in the place of the famous scientist Domeyko. Hunneus, besides numerous educational works and political pamphlets, has written "Historia politica de Chile" (Santiago, 1862); "La admin istracion Montt" (1863); "His- toria de la guerra con Espana" (1866); and "His- toria de la guerra del Pacifico " (1883).

HUNT, Benjamin Faneuil, lawyer, b. in Watertown, Mass., 20 Feb., 1792; d. in New York city, 5 Dec, 1857. He was graduated at Harvard in 1810, removed to South Carolina on account of the delicacy of his health, studied law in Charleston, and was admitted to the bar in 1813. In 1818 he was elected to the state house of representatives, and was repeatedly re-elected until the nullification crisis, when he adhered to the principles of the unpopular minority, and, while many abandoned the cause from interested motives, he remained one of the main props of the Union party in South Carolina in 1830-4. His name is connected with the history of the nullification period by the case of the state against Hunt, in which the question was decided in May, 1834, that the new oath of allegiance, called the " test-oath," that was required by the act of 1833, was unconstitutional. After the animosities springing from the political conflict had passed away, Col. Hunt, as he was called from his rank in the militia, was again sent to the legislature, and was an active member of the house for many years. He had an extensive practice at the bar, arid was noted for his eloquence, and for the ingenuity and pertinacity with which he contested the eases that were confided to him.

HUNT, Charles Sedgwick, journalist, b. in Litchfield, Conn., 7 April, 1842 ; d. in New York