Herbert James Hunt

Herbert James Hunt (2 August 1899 – 2 November 1973) was an English academic, author and translator, particularly of the novels of Honoré de Balzac. Biography Herbert Hunt was born in Lichfield in 1899, the son of James Henry Hunt, a printer compositor, and Mary Ann Hunt. He had one elder brother, Horace, who died in 1935. He briefly saw service in France towards the end of the First World War. Hunt was educated at Lichfield Cathedral Choir School, Lichfield Grammar School, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Whilst at school he came to the notice of Dean Savage (of Lichfield Cathedral) and possibly also of Sir William Henry Harris (one-time Assistant Organist at Lichfield Cathedral and latterly organist at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle), who remained a personal friend until his death. Both may have influenced his later academic career at Oxford.