Henry George Bonavia Hunt

Rev Henry George Bonavia Hunt FRSE FRAS FLS (30 June 1847 – 27 September 1917) was a British Anglican cleric and the founder of the Trinity College of Music in London. Life He was a British subject born on 30 July 1847 in Valletta, Malta, the son of William Hunt, who was engaged there as both private secretary and lay vicar to the Bishop of Jerusalem. His mother was Marietta Bonavia, a local woman. His paternal grandfather, also William Hunt, born 1790 in Sutton, Suffolk, was a brush maker. He was educated privately. He studied music firstly at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.Mus. in 1876; and then at the Trinity College, Dublin where he gained a doctorate (Mus.D.). Hunt was ordained in the Church of England in 1878. At first he was a curate in Surrey and later became warden of Trinity College. He was then Curate of St James Piccadilly in London. He then began lecturing in the History of Music at London University. His final role was as Rector of Burgess Hill School, a girls' school in Sussex.