Career
He was a lecturer in palaeography in Liverpool, and worked at Bush House during World World War World War II In 1945 he obtained the position of Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and he relocated to Oxford. She died 7 December 1940. On 14 February 1940 Hunt remarried to Katharine (Kit) Eva Rowland (b 1913/14), daughter of timber merchant Harry Rowland of Parkgate, Cheshire.
Three sons were born to them, including Tim Hunt.
On Hunt"s retirement from the Bodleian in 1975, he was honoured with an Oxford exhibition,The Survival of Ancient Literature, as well as a collection of essays Medieval learning and literature: Essays presented to Richard William Hunt (). His death in 1980 was marked by a second major exhibition, Manuscripts at Oxford.
