Roland Hunt
Roland Charles Colin Hunt CMG (19 March 1916 – 24 March 1999) was a British diplomat.
Son of Colin Bertram Hunt (1881–1967), of HM Inspectorate of Schools, and his wife Dorothea Mary (née Charles),[1][2] Hunt was educated at two boarding schools: The Dragon School and Rugby School.[3] He attended The Queen's College, Oxford.[4]
During the Second World War, he was based in British India as a magistrate and tax collector in the Indian Civil Service.[5] He was UK High Commissioner to Uganda from 1965 to 1967, and UK High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to 1973.[6]
He married Pauline Garnett, daughter of James Clerk Maxwell Garnett. They had five children; three sons and two daughters. Their eldest son is Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton.[7]
The Hunt family were goldsmiths and silversmiths in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, John Samuel Hunt (1785-1865) being in business with his uncle-by-marriage, Paul Storr; also descended from John Samuel Hunt was John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Kelly's Directories, 1973, p. 2734
- ↑ The Balliol College Register, 2nd edition, ed. Sir Ivo Elliott, Bt, 1934, p. 251
- ↑ Palmer, By Andrew (30 April 1999). "Roland Hunt - Our man in the colonies and Commonwealth". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ↑ "Obituary: Roland Hunt". The Independent. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ↑ "Lord Hunt of Chesterton obituary: director-general of the Met Office". The Times. 26 April 2026. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ 2007 "Hunt, Roland Charles Colin, (19 March 1916–24 March 1999), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Director, British National Committee, International Chamber of Commerce, 1973–76." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
- ↑ 2018 "Hunt of Chesterton, Baron, (Julian Charles Roland Hunt) (born 5 Sept. 1941)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
- ↑ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., 2003, vol. 2, p. 1998
- ↑ Paul Storr 1771-1844, Silversmith and Goldsmith, N. M. Penzer, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1971, p. 15
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