Born at
Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Hunt was the son of Rowland Hunt (1828-1878), of Boreatton Hall,
Baschurch, Shropshire and his wife Florence Marianne, daughter of Richard B. Humfrey, of
Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire, and
Stoke Albany House, Northamptonshire. the
Lovat Scouts during the
Second Boer War, and later became a Major in the
City of London Yeomanry and later Master of Foxhounds of the Wheatland Hunt in Shropshire. Hunt married Georgina Veronica Davidson, daughter of Colonel
Duncan Davidson of
Tulloch Castle in
Dingwall. They had two sons and one daughter. He later married Harriette Evelyn Hunt. == Political career ==