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Royal Navy Admiral (1930–2013) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Admiral Sir Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt GCB LVO DL (7 November 1930 – 25 October 2013) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He was Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 1985 to 1987.
Nicholas Hunt | |
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Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt | |
| Birth name | Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt |
| Born | 7 November 1930 Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales |
| Died | 25 October 2013 (aged 82) Shere, Surrey, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1952–1987 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | Commander-in-Chief Fleet and Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel and Eastern Atlantic. Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training Flag Officer, Second Flotilla |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order |
| Spouse(s) | Meriel Eve Hunt, Lady Hunt (née Givan) |
| Relations | Jeremy Hunt (son) |
Hunt was born on 7 November 1930[1] in Hawarden, Flintshire, the younger son[2] of Brigadier John Montgomerie Hunt of the 5th Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army[3] and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Baldwyn Yates CBE.[2] The Hunt family were landed gentry, of Boreatton, Baschurch, Shropshire. A cousin was Agnes Hunt, pioneer of orthopaedic nursing.[4]
Hunt was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.[1] After graduating, he gained a commission in the Royal Navy and was promoted to lieutenant on 31 July 1952.[5] He served as Assistant Private Secretary to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1959[6][7] to 1962.[1] Promoted to lieutenant commander on 17 August 1960,[8] he was posted to the Directorate of Naval Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1966.[9]
Hunt became executive officer of HMS Ark Royal[6] in 1969 and was then given command of the amphibious warfare ship HMS Intrepid in February 1974[10] before attending the Royal College of Defence Studies later that year.[1] He went on to be Director of Naval Plans at the Ministry of Defence in August 1976[11] and captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in October 1978.[12] Appointed aide-de-camp to the Queen on 7 July 1980[13] (which post he held until 7 January 1981),[14] he became Flag Officer, Second Flotilla in October 1980.[1] He was promoted to rear admiral on 7 January 1981[14] and became Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in November 1981.[1]
Hunt was promoted to vice admiral on 6 December 1983,[15] on appointment as Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland,[6] and to admiral on 25 June 1985,[16] on appointment as Commander-in-Chief Fleet[6] and Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel and Eastern Atlantic.[1] He retired from the Navy on 26 July 1987.[17]
Hunt was Deputy Managing Director at Eurotunnel from 1987 to 1989[1] and Director-General of the Chamber of Shipping[6] from 1991 to 1997.[1] He also held part-time appointments including Chairman of the South West Surrey District Health Authority from 1990 to 1995,[1] Chairman of Nuffield Hospitals from 1996 to 2001,[1] Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission from 1988 to 1992[1] and Chairman of Chatham Historic Dockyard from 1998 to 2005.[18] He also became Chairman of Ferrero UK Ltd in 2005.[1]
Hunt was known to be a strong supporter of the nuclear deterrent[19] and was Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785 (United 1889).[20] He became Deputy Lieutenant to the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey on 23 January 1996.[21]
Hunt was appointed Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom in 1994,[22] holding that post until 1997 when he became Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom[23] and Lieutenant of the Admiralty,[1] positions that he held until 2001.[24]
He died at his home on 25 October 2013 at the age of 82.[25]
In 1966, he married Meriel Eve Givan, daughter of Major Henry C. Givan of the Isle of Wight,[2] formerly of Rangoon.[26] Together they had two sons (the elder of whom is the former Foreign Secretary and the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt)[27] and one daughter.[6] Lady Hunt died in 2022.[28]
On 20 July 1961, Hunt was made a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order.[29] Members of this class were renamed Lieutenants in 1984 and henceforth used the post-nominals LVO. Hunt was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1985 New Year Honours.[30] He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1987 New Year Honours.[31]
Hunt was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1988.[1]
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