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James Hunt ( 1833 – 1869 ) was an exuberant character, giving to each of his ventures his boundless energy and self-confidence.

Taking up his father's legacy with great zeal, by the age of 21 Hunt had published his compendious work, " Stammering and Stuttering, Their Nature and Treatment ".

This went into six editions during his lifetime and was reprinted again in 1870, just after his death, and for an eighth time in 1967 as a landmark in the history of speech therapy.

In the introduction to the 1967 edition of the book, Elliot Schaffer notes that in his short lifetime James Hunt is said to have treated over 1, 700 cases of speech impediment, firstly in his father's practise and later at his own institute, Ore House near Hastings, which he set up with the aid a doctorate he had purchased in 1856 from the University of Giessen in Germany.