Education
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.
politician Member of the House of Lords
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.
He received his M.A. degree in the field of governmental administration from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and in 1941 joined the Bureau of Internal Revenue. After service in the U.S. Coast Guard, O'Brien resumed his work as an Internal Revenue Service investigator. O'Brien was appointed as a staff member for the Warren Commission in 1963.
Their purpose was to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. After completion of the Warren Commission, he took the post of Assistant Chief of the Inspection Services Investigations Branch, in the National Office of Internal Revenue.