Hunt was born in
Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with
Bernard Grenfell, recovered many
papyri from excavation sites in Egypt, including the
Oxyrhynchus Papyri. He worked with
Campbell Cowan Edgar on a translation of the
Zenon Papyri from the original
Greek and
Demotic. In 1913, he became Professor of Papyrology at Oxford, succeeding to his lifelong friend and colleague Grenfell, whose professorship lapsed due to the latter’s breakdowns and depression. In January 1918, he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Surgeon-Major-General Sir A. F. Bradshaw, but during the next few months their only child died. == Awards ==