George Ward Hunt (1825–77)

Politician. BA, Oxford (Christ Church), 1848; DCL, 1870. Called to the bar, 1851, and went on the Oxford circuit. Conservative MP for the northern division of Northamptonshire, 1857. Financial secretary to the Treasury, 1866–8. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1868. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1874–7.