John Hunt (British politician, born 1929)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Sir John Leonard Hunt (27 October 1929 – 19 September 2017)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life

Hunt was educated at Dulwich College and became a stockbroker.

Political career

He served as a councillor on Bromley Borough Council 1953–61, then became an alderman in 1961, joining the new London Borough of Bromley in 1964. He was Mayor of Bromley from 1963 to 1965.

He first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at the 1959 general election, contesting Lewisham South, and he was also unsuccessful in the equivalent seat at the 1961 London County Council election.

Hunt was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 33 years, serving in Bromley from 1964 to 1974, originally succeeding former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and in Ravensbourne from 1974 until he retired in 1997.

Hunt was knighted in 1989.[2]

He never married,[2] and died on 19 September 2017 at the age of 87.[3]

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