James Hunt (1833 – 29 August 1869) was an anthropologist and speech therapist in London, England, during the middle of the nineteenth century.
The 1861 census shows that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was staying at Ore House in 1861 and being treated by Dr. Hunt a psellismolligist.
His father trained him in the art of curing stuttering by means of breath exercises, muscle control and building the patient's confidence.
His paper The Negro's place in nature was greeted with boos and hisses when given at the British Association meeting in 1863 because of its defense of slavery in the Confederate States of America and belief in the plurality of the human species.
Efram Sera-Shriar, ‘Observing Human Difference: James Hunt, Thomas Huxley, and Competing Disciplinary Strategies in the 1860s’, Annals of Science, 70 (2013), 461-491