Rowland Hunt (13 March 1858 – 30 November 1943) was an English politician. The

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Baschurch Baschurch is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies in North Shropshire, north-west of Shrewsbury. The village has a population of 2,503 as of the 2011 census. The village has strong links to Shrewsbury to the south-e ...

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, he sat in the House of Commons from 1903 to 1918 as the

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(MP) for Ludlow.

Early life and family

Born at Market Harborough, Leicestershire,Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Hunt was the son of Rowland Hunt (1828-1878), of Boreatton Hall,

, Shropshire and his wife Florence Marianne, daughter of Richard B. Humfrey, of Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire, and Stoke Albany House, Northamptonshire. The Hunts were one of the principal families of north Shropshire. Hunt's younger sister Agnes Hunt (1866–1948) worked with physically disabled people; his uncle

George Ward Hunt George Ward Hunt (30 July 1825 – 29 July 1877) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Admiralty in the first and second ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. Early life He was bo ...

was

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under Disraeli. Hunt was educated at

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and

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. He served with Northamptonshire Militia for ten years, the

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during the

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, and later became a Major in the City of London Yeomanry in 1914 at the start of the

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. Hunt was a county cricketer for

, mainly as a wicket keeper, between 1879 and 1881. and later Master of Foxhounds of the Wheatland Hunt in Shropshire. In 1889, Hunt married Georgina Veronica Davidson, daughter of Colonel Duncan Davidson of Tulloch Castle in Dingwall. They had two sons and one daughter. He later married Harriette Evelyn Hunt.

Political career

Robert Jasper More Robert Jasper More (30 October 1836 – 25 November 1903) was an English landowner, barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1865 and 1903. Life More was the son of the Rev. Thomas Frederick More ...

, the Liberal Unionist MP for Ludlow, died in November 1903. Hunt was selected by the Ludlow's Conservatives and its Liberal Unionists as the joint Unionist candidate for the resulting by-election. He then briefly joined the National Party in 1917, then the Conservatives. During a parliamentary debate on the bill which became the

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, he opposed the extension of the voting franchise to women:

"There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats. How is a poor little man to get on with a couple of women wearing enormous hats in front of him?"

Hunt was also

antisemitic Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

, believing a Jewish plutocracy was secretly conspiring to subvert political life.Jay P. Corrin, ''Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002) In local government, Hunt was one of the founder members of Shropshire County Council in 1889. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1880 and Deputy-Lieutenant in 1931 for the county of Shropshire. He died at Lindley Green, Broseley, Shropshire, in November 1943 aged 85.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Rowland 1858 births 1943 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Shropshire Politicians from Ludlow Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Lovat Scouts officers City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) officers