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Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt (13 March 1920 – 16 February 1987) was a British scholar and
Labour politician. He served as a
Minister of State
Minister of State is a title borne by politicians in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a Minister of State is a Junior Minister of government, who is assigned to assist a specific Cabinet Minister. In ...
in
Harold Wilson's 1974–1976 government, and became Rector of
Exeter College, Oxford
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in 1982.
Early life and education
Hunt was born in
Bradford in 1920. He was educated at Belle Vue High School in Bradford, and studied history at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge before becoming a research fellow there in 1949. He gained a
Commonwealth Fund Fellowship studied American politics at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
and in 1952, he was elected to a tutorial fellowship in politics at
Exeter College, Oxford
(Let Exeter Flourish)
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.
Career
Hunt appeared regularly on
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television and radio, and hosted the weekly ''
People and Politics
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'' on the
BBC World Service. In 1986, his work with the corporation lead to his appointment as chairman of its General Advisory Council.
Through his friendship with
Harold Wilson, Hunt was able to promote reform of the civil service and devolution, two issues on which he felt deeply. During Wilson's first term as
Prime Minister
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, he served on the
Committee on the Civil Service (1966–1968; chaired by
Lord Fulton), and was appointed to the
Royal Commission on the Constitution, chaired by
Lord Crowther and later
Lord Kilbrandon, in 1969.
On 9 July 1973, he was awarded a
life peerage as Baron Crowther-Hunt, of
Eccleshill in the
West Riding of the County of York.
To develop the government's devolution proposals following Wilson's return to power, Crowther-Hunt became a constitutional adviser to the government from March to October 1974. He then served as
Minister of State, Education and Science
The Minister of State for Schools, formerly the Minister of State for School Standards and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards, is a mid-level position in the Department for Education in the British government.
The curre ...
until 1976, when he became
Minister of State for the Privy Council Office, when he again dealt with devolution issues.
Disillusioned by the government's narrow, party-political attitude to devolution and obstructions to civil service reform, he returned to full-time teaching at Exeter College in 1976. He became Rector in 1982, a position in which he served until his death from a heart attack in 1987.
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1920 births
1987 deaths
Politicians from Bradford
Labour Party (UK) life peers
Rectors of Exeter College, Oxford
Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Princeton University alumni
Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
Harkness Fellows
People educated at Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School, Bradford
Life peers created by Elizabeth II