John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth

John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, GCB, KCPO (23 October 1919 – 17 July 2008) was a British civil servant.^[1]

He was born in Minehead, west Somerset, to Major A.L.Hunt and Daphne Ashton-Case. He attended Downside School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, before joining the Civil Service in 1946. He was Cabinet Secretary from 1973 to 1979. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.

Lord Hunt of Tanworth was a brother-in-law of the late Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

Honours and awards

He was appointed as Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1968 and subsequently made a Knight Commander (KCB) of the same order in 1973. KCB in 1973. He was created a life peer with the title Baron Hunt of Tanworth, of Stratford-on-Avon in the County of Warwickshire on 8 February 1980, and invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the same year. Hunt was also invested as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX by the Holy See.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

• Portraits of John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Secretaries of the Cabinet Colonel Maurice Hankey Sir Edward Bridges Sir Norman Brook General Sir Hastings Ismay Sir Burke Trend Sir John Hunt Sir Robert Armstrong Sir Robin Butler Sir Richard Wilson Sir Andrew Turnbull Sir Gus O'Donnell Sir Jeremy Heywood