Hurst, Stephen Henry, youngest son of Peter Hurst, of Beckenham, Kent, by Janet, daughter of Henry Hicks, of Weybridge, Surrey; b. June 18, 1890; adm. May 4, 1906 (G); left July 1908; served in France in the 1st London Brigade R.F.A. Aug. 1914 - April 1919; Major Sept. 1, 1916; wounded at St. Julien Oct. 1917; m. 1st April 23, 1924, Nancy, youngest daughter of Frederick Charles Shoesmith, of Harrogate, Yorks; 2nd Peggy Proud.

HURST, ROBERT HENRY, only son of Robert Henry Hurst (b. 1788, qv); b. 1 Jun 1817; adm. 8 Apr 1831 (G); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 May 1836, matr. Mich. 1836; 25th Wrangler 1840; BA 1840; MA 1843; adm. Middle Temple 29 May 1835, called to bar 25 Nov 1842; South-Eastern Circuit; Recorder of Hastings and Rye from 8 Feb 1863; MP Horsham 1865-8, May 1869-74, Dec 1875 – Feb 1876; Chairman, West Sussex Quarter Sessions; of Horsham Park, Sussex, and Barrington Grove, Burford, Oxfordshire; DL JP Sussex, JP Oxfordshire; m. 28 Apr 1859 Matilda Jane, eldest dau. of James Scott, Rusper, Sussex; d. 12 Feb 1905.

HURST, BERTRAM PRESTON, son of Rev. Francis Thomas Hurst, Vicar of Ridgewell, Essex, and Ruth, elder dau. of Robert Preston, Bridlington Quay, Yorks.; b. 4 Apr 1868; adm. 22 Jun 1882 (G), exhibitioner; QS 1883; left Jul 1886; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 May 1887, matr. Mich. 1887; BA 1890; MA 1897; Ridley Hall, Cambridge 1892; ordained deacon (Norwich) 1893, priest (Ely) 1895; held a number of curacies; Vicar of St. Mary, Bungay, Suffolk 1902-11; licensed preacher, various dioceses, from 1911; m. 11 Oct 1898 Florence Margaret, dau. of William Grafton Healing, Tewkesbury, Gloucs., miller and corn merchant; d. 13 Mar 1928.

Hunter, Francis Trevor, son of Trevor Havard Hunter QC, County Court Judge, and Ethel Ruth, d. of John Griffiths of Neath, Glam.; nephew of Howard Havard Hunter (qv); b. 17 Apr. 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (G); left Dec. 1926; a chartered accountant, ACA 1932, FCWA 1954, FCA 1955; asst sec. James Mackie & Sons, Belfast, 1936-42; chief cost accountant Min. of War Transport 1942-3; Robson Morrow & Co., consulting accountants, 1943-73; retd; m. 8 Aug. 1936 Audrey Elizabeth, d. of Charles Nelson Park of St Clement, Jersey; d. 21 Feb. 1989.

Hunter, Colin Havard, brother of Francis Trevor Hunter (qv); b. 27 Aug. 1912; adm. Apr. 1926 (G); left July 1930; an aeronautical engineer, AFRAeS 1933; RAFVR 1940-4 (acting Sqdn Ldr), killed in action 8 May 1944.

Colin Havard Hunter was born at Briton Ferry, Neath, Wales on the 27th of August 1912 the son of His Honour Judge Trevor Havard Hunter KC and Ethel Ruth (nee Griffiths) Hunter of 6, Hereford Mansions, Hereford Road, Paddington in London. He was christened at Briton Ferry on the 29th of September 1911. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from April 1926 to July 1930.
On leaving school he became an aeronautical engineer and qualified AFRAeS in 1933. He was awarded a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 10534) at the Herts and Essex Aero Club on the 7th of June 1932 while flying a DH Moth aircraft.
He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the 14th of September 1940 and was promoted to Flying Officer on the 14th of September 1941. He was promoted to Flight Lieutenant on the 14th of September 1942. He trained at No. 1654 Conversion Unit prior to becoming operational.
On the night of the 7th/8th of May 1944, Bomber Command dispatched 58 Lancasters and 9 Mosquitos for an attack on an ammunition dump at Salbris as part of ongoing operations in preparation for the planned invasion of France. It was to be his eighteenth operation and he had completed 133.48 hours of operational flying up to that time.
Colin Hunter and his crew took off from RAF Dunholm Lodge at 9.46pm on the 7th of May 1944 in Lancaster Mk III ND741KM-K for the operation. Shortly after midnight the aircraft was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf110 night fighter flown by Leutnant Fred Hromadnik of 9/NJG4 and it caught fire. The crew abandoned the aircraft at low level but only Flight Engineer Fred Cooper’s parachute deployed in time, with the remaining six crew members being killed when they hit the ground. The aircraft crashed at 12.30am into the village of Herbilly, a few kilometres to the west of the River Loire and some twenty kilometres to the north east of Blois. It exploded when it hit the village, destroying several buildings and killing thirteen civilians in their homes. Theirs was the fourth of an eventual six victories for Fred Hromadnik.
The crew was: -
Squadron Leader Colin Havard Hunter (Pilot)
Pilot Officer Richard Colton Alexander (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Alfred Greenwood (Navigator)
Pilot Officer George Robert Miles (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Salmon (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Gordon Keith Willis RCAF (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Frederick Stanley Cooper (Flight Engineer) (POW No. 13 Dulag Luft)
Theirs was one of seven aircraft which failed to return from the operation.
While Colin Hunter was fighting to control the aircraft to give his crew time to bail out, Fred Cooper escaped from the aircraft out of the top hatch and was the first member of the crew to get out. His parachute opened just in time and he hit the side of the roof of a house before sliding off and landing on a green house where he suffered cuts to his head. He was taken into hiding by locals but when the Germans threatened to begin shooting the villagers he gave himself up and was taken prisoner. He was later taken by the Germans to the crash site where he was able to identify the bodies of George Miles, Colin Hunter and Alfred Greenwood.
He is buried at Orleans Main Cemetery Plot 1, Row A, Collective Grave 16-27.

HUNT, WILLIAM CLAUDE HOLDSWORTH, eldest son of Holdsworth Hunt, Park Crescent, Portland Place, London, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Ellen, youngest dau. of Joseph Barber, Clapham, Surrey; b. 1 Sep 1844; adm. 3 Jun 1858 (G); rowed against Eton 1862; left Christmas 1862; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 May 1863; managing partner, Joseph Barber & Co, wharfingers and factors, Brewers’ Quay, Tower Hill, London; m. 15 Apr 1869 Emma, eldest dau. of John Christian Frederick Engelhardt, Pembridge Square, London, sugar merchant; d. 14 Jan 1920.

HUNT, HENRY WARWICK, only son of Henry Hunt MD FRCP, Brook Street, Hanover Square, London, and his first wife Maria, eldest dau. of Arthur Hunt, Redlap, Devon; b. 20 Feb 1835; adm. 22 Jan 1846 (G); readm. 18 Jan 1849; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Mar 1854, matr. Mich. 1854; BA 1858; MA 1861; ordained deacon 19 Jun 1859, priest 3 Jun 1860 (both London); Curate, St. John’s, Westminster 1860-5, St. Anne’s, Soho 1866-9; Rector of Steppingley, Beds., Dec 1869 - Jan 1872; Rector of Shermanbury, Sussex, from 10 Jan 1872; m. 10 Feb 1870 Adele de Havilland, seventh dau. of Francis Rivaz, Cowley Street, Westminster; d. 7 Mar 1911.

HUNT, SIR FREDERICK SEAGER, BART., eldest son of James Edward Hunt, Clapham Common, Surrey, railway contractor, and Eliza, sister of Thomas Whittaker Seager (qv); b. 27 Apr 1838; adm. 22 Sep 1848 (G); left 1853; went out to India, where he remained until 1859; succeeded to business of Seager Evans & Co, distillers, Millbank, on death of grandfather; chairman, Earle’s Shipbuilding Co.; contested (Cons) Marylebone 1880; MP (Cons) Marylebone West 1885-95, Maidstone 1895-8; created baronet 13 Oct 1892; DL co. London; m. 29 Oct 1867 his cousin Alice Harriet, dau. of Alfred Hunt, Hannover, Germany; d. 21 Jan 1904.

HUNT, FRANCIS HOLDSWORTH, brother of William Claude Holdsworth Hunt (qv); b. 10 Dec 1846; adm. 24 Jan 1861 (G); left Aug 1864; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 May 1866, matr. Mich. 1866; BA 1870; MA 1873; adm. Inner Temple 20 Jan 1870, called to bar 18 Nov 1872; practised as a conveyancer; subsequently member London Stock Exchange, firm Hunt Cox & Co; m. 1st, 19 Jun 1877 Ada Rose Wilhelmina, youngest dau. of John Christian Frederick Engelhardt, Pembridge Square, London, sugar merchant; m. 2nd, 21 Sep 1880 Agnes Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Frederick Halsey Janson, Chislehurst, Kent, solicitor; d. 5 Jan 1905.

Hunt, Alan Garnet, son of Garnet Hillier Hunt, man. Sun Life Assurance, and Edith Mary Isa­bel, d. of Alexander Thomas, treasurer Woolwich BC; b. 6 Oct. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (G); left Apr. 1933; Lieut. RA (TA) July 1939, Capt. Jan. 1941, Maj. Sept. 1948, Lieut.-Col. Oct. 1955; TD; Sun Alliance Lond. Insurance Group; m. 7 Aug. 1940 Eileen Mary, d. of Percival Victor Cabell, solicitor, of Sevenoaks, Kent; d. 13 July 1981.