Roland Hunt

Roland Charles Colin Hunt CMG (19 March 1916 – 24 March 1999) was a British diplomat.

Son of Colin Bertram Hunt (1881–1967), of HM Inspectorate of Schools, and his wife Dorothea Mary (née Charles),^[1]^[2] Hunt was educated at two boarding schools: The Dragon School and Rugby School.^[3] He attended The Queen's College, Oxford.^[4] He was UK High Commissioner to Uganda from 1965 to 1967, and UK High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 1970 to 1973.^[5]

He married Pauline Garnett, daughter of James Clerk Maxwell Garnett. They had five children; three sons and two daughters. Their eldest son is Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton.^[6]

The Hunt family were goldsmiths and silversmiths in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, John Samuel Hunt (1785-1865) being in business with his uncle-by-marriage, Paul Storr; also descended from John Samuel Hunt was John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley.^[7]^[8]

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