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.
Hunt was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1968 and promoted Knight Commander (KCB) in 1973. Created a Life Peer with the title Baron Hunt of Tanworth, of Stratford-on-Avon in the County of Warwickshire on 8 February 1980, he was also advanced as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the same year. Lord Hunt was also appointed Officier de la Légion d'honneur by President François Mitterrand and Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX by Pope John Paul II.
