John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth
- John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth
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name =John Joseph Benedict Hunt
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birth_date =Birth date|1919|10|23|df=yes
birth_place =Minehead, Somerset, England
death_date =Death date and age|2008|7|17|1919|10|23|df=yes
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known_for =Life peer and member of the House of Lords
occupation =Civil servant and politician
nationality =British
title=Baron Hunt of Tanworth
John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, GCB (23 October 1919 – 17 July 2008) was a British civil servant and politician. [cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4352659.ece|title=Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet|date=2008-07-17|work=The Times|publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd|accessdate=2008-07-17]
He was born in Minehead, west Somerset, to Major LA Hunt and Daphne Aston-Caves. He attended Downside School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, before joining the Civil Service in 1946. He was Secretary of the Cabinet from 1973 to 1979. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.
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.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Life peer and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH=1919-10-23
PLACE OF BIRTH=Minehead, Somerset, England
DATE OF DEATH=2008-7-17
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