Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt (13 March 1920 – 16 February 1987) was a British scholar and

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politician. He served as a

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's 1974–1976 government, and became Rector of

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in 1982.

Early life and education

Hunt was born in

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in 1920. He was educated at Belle Vue High School in Bradford, and studied history at

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before becoming a research fellow there in 1949. He gained a

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studied American politics at

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and in 1952, he was elected to a tutorial fellowship in politics at

Career

Hunt appeared regularly on

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television and radio, and hosted the weekly ''

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'' on the

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. In 1986, his work with the corporation lead to his appointment as chairman of its General Advisory Council. Through his friendship with

, 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

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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

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, in 1969. On 9 July 1973, he was awarded a

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age 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

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until 1976, when he became

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, 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowther-Hunt, Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron 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