Life

Born at Warminster

Warminster

Warminster is a town in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36, and near Frome and Westbury. It has a population of about 17,000. The River Were runs through the town and can be seen running through the middle of the town park. The Minster Church of St Denys sits on the River Were...

, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

 on 19 September 1787, he was the son of the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, master of Warminster school, and a nephew of George Isaac Huntingford

George Isaac Huntingford

George Isaac Huntingford was bishop successively of Gloucester and HerefordHe was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1770, graduating M.A., 1776 and D.D. in 1793. He was then curate of Compton, south of Winchester, before becoming a master of his...

 He became a scholar of Winchester College

Winchester College

Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...

 in 1802, and matriculated at New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

, on 16 April 1807, subsequently becoming a Fellow both of New College and (5 April 1814) and of Winchester. He took the degree of B.C.L. on 1 June 1814.

In 1822 he was appointed rector of Hampton Bishop

Hampton Bishop

Hampton Bishop is a village and civil parish south-east of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England. The village itself is on a wedge between the River Wye and the River Lugg, and is also not far from where the River Frome meets the Lugg....

, Herefordshire

Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...

, and in 1838 a prebendary in Hereford Cathedral

Hereford Cathedral

The current Hereford Cathedral, located at Hereford in England, dates from 1079. Its most famous treasure is Mappa Mundi, a mediæval map of the world dating from the 13th century. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.-Origins:...

. He was also rural dean

Rural Dean

In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church, a Rural Dean presides over a Rural Deanery .-Origins and usage:...

. He died at Goodrest, Great Malvern

Great Malvern

Great Malvern is an area of Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is the historical centre of the town, and the location of the headquarters buildings of the of Malvern Town Council, the governing body of the Malvern civil parish, and Malvern Hills District council of the county of...

, on 2 November 1867.

Works

Huntingford published:

• Pindari Carmina juxta exemplar Heynianum ... et Lexicon Pindaricum ex integro Dammii opere etymologico excerptum, an edition of Pindar
  Pindar
  Pindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...
  
  , 1814; another edition, 1821. His edition of Christian Tobias Damm
  Christian Tobias Damm
  Christian Tobias Damm was a renowned German Classical philologist, and the less than orthodox theologian who was rector and prorector of the Köllnische Gymnasium, the oldest in Berlin, but prematurely pensioned off in 1766, in the wake of scandalized accusations of trends towards Socianian...
  
  's Lexicon Pindaricum was also issued separately in 1814.
• Romanist Conversations; or Dialogues between a Romanist and a Protestant. Published at Geneva in 1713, and translated from the original French of Benedict Pictet
  Benedict Pictet
  -Life:He was born at Geneva on 30 May 1655. After receiving a university education there, he made an extensive tour of Europe. He then assumed pastoral duties at Geneva, and in 1686 was appointed professor of theology. He there on 10 June 1724.-Works:...
  
  , 1826.

He also edited his uncle's Thoughts on the Trinity, 1832.