Roland Charles Colin Hunt (19 March 191624 March 1999) was a British diplomat.
Son of Colin Bertram Hunt (1881–1967), of
HM Inspectorate of Schools
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, and his wife Dorothea Mary (née Charles), Hunt was educated at two boarding schools: The
Dragon School and
Rugby School. He attended
The Queen's College, Oxford. He was
UK High Commissioner to Uganda from 1965 to 1967, and
UK High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to 1973.
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.
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.
[Paul Storr 1771-1844, Silversmith and Goldsmith, N. M. Penzer, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1971, p. 15]
References
1916 births
1999 deaths
People educated at The Dragon School
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Uganda
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Trinidad and Tobago
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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