Rowland Hunt
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Rowland Hunt (13 March 1858 – 30 November 1943) was an English politician. The Lord of the Manor of Baschurch in Shropshire,[1] he sat in the House of Commons from 1903 to 1918 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ludlow.[2]
Born at Market Harborough, Leicestershire,[3] Hunt was the son of Rowland Hunt (1828-1878), of Boreatton Hall, Baschurch, Shropshire and his wife Florence Marianne, daughter of Richard B. Humfrey, of Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire, and Stoke Albany House, Northamptonshire.[1][4] The Hunts were one of the principal families of north Shropshire.[5] Hunt's younger sister Agnes Hunt (1866–1948) worked with physically disabled people;[4] his uncle George Ward Hunt was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli.[5]
Hunt was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1]
He served with Northamptonshire Militia for ten years,[6] the Lovat Scouts during the Second Boer War, and later became a Major in the City of London Yeomanry[7] in 1914 at the start of the First World War.[6]
Hunt was a county cricketer for Shropshire, mainly as a wicket keeper, between 1879 and 1881.[8] and later Master of Foxhounds of the Wheatland Hunt in Shropshire.[6]
In 1890,[9] Hunt married Georgina Veronica Davidson, daughter of Colonel Duncan Davidson of Tulloch Castle in Dingwall. They had two sons and one daughter.[1][7] He later married Harriette Evelyn Hunt.[1][7]