John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth

{{Short description|British civil servant}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

|name = The Lord Hunt of Tanworth

|honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}}

|image = John Hunt 1971.jpg

|caption = Portrait by Bassano, 1971

|office8 = Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal

|term_start8 = 8 February 1980

|term_end8 = 17 July 2008
Life Peerage

|birth_date ={{Birth date|1919|10|23|df=yes}}

|birth_place =Minehead, Somerset, UK

|death_date ={{Death date and age|2008|7|17|1919|10|23|df=yes}}

|death_place =London

|other_names =

|known_for = Cabinet Secretary, Life Peer and member of HoL

|occupation =Civil servant

|nationality =British

|title=

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John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} (23 October 1919 – 17 July 2008) was a British civil servant.

Born in Minehead, Somerset to Major A. L. Hunt MC by his wife Daphne (née Ashton Case), he was educated at Downside School and Magdalene College, Cambridge before joining the Civil Service in 1946.{{Cite web|title=Hunt of Tanworth, Baron, (John Joseph Benedict Hunt) (23 Oct. 1919–17 July 2008)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-21198|access-date=2021-04-03|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u21198|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}

Hunt became Cabinet Secretary from 1973 to 1979, being the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.[https://www.thetimes.com/article/lord-hunt-of-tanworth-secretary-of-the-cabinet-dd26q5tv23h Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet]

Lord Hunt of Tanworth married firstly in 1941 The Hon. Magdalen Robinson (died 1971) and, by his second wife Madeleine, Lady Charles (née Hume), was a brother-in-law of the late Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.{{cite book

| last = Mosley| first = Charles (ed.)

| title = Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn

| location = London

| publisher = Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd

| page = 1998 (HUNT OF TANWORTH, LP)

| date = 2003

| isbn = 0-9711966-2-1}}