Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt

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Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt (born March 13, 1920 in Bradford , † February 16, 1987 in Oxford ) was a British scientist and Labor Party politician .

Early years and education

Norman Hunt attended Belle Vue High School in Bradford and studied history at Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . In 1949 he got a research grant and studied American politics at Princeton University . In 1952 he received a scholarship in politics from Exeter College , Oxford .

Professional career

Hunt was a regular guest on BBD radio and television programs and hosted the weekly People and Politics program on BBC World Service . In 1986 he became Chairman of the General Advisory Council of the BBC.

During Harold Wilson's first term as Prime Minister , Norman Hunt was a member of the Fulton Commission from 1966 to 1968 , chaired by John Fulton, Baron Fulton , who proposed ideas for public administration reform. In 1969 he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Constitution , whose chairman was initially Lord Crowther and from 1969 Lord Kilbrandon . During Wilson's second term, beginning in March 1974, Hunt became an advisor to the government to carry out its proposals for regionalization . From October 1974 to 1976 he was Minister of Education, then Minister of State for the Privy Council Office , where he continued to take care of regionalization and administrative reform. Eventually, disaffected, he resigned from his ministerial office and returned to teaching at Exeter College in 1976 . In 1982 he became rector of the college and remained so until his death in 1987. In the same year, the new Crowther Hunt building, for which Hunt and his wife had collected the money, was inaugurated in Oxford .

family

In 1944, Norman Hunt married his wife, Joyce, daughter of a British missionary who was serving in Saskatchewan . The couple had three daughters. Lady Crowther-Hunt was involved in many ways with students at Oxford, both institutional and private; so she invited students to her house over Christmas who could not go home.

In 1990, Lady Crowther-Hunt was awarded the Orden de Isabel la Católica by the Spanish King Juan Carlos I for her services in setting up a scholarship named after a Queen Sofia at Exeter College . She died in February 2006.

Publications

  • Methods of wage payment in British industry . 1951
  • Sir Robert Walpole, Samuel Holden and Dissenting Deputies . 1957
  • Power in Britain . Teddington 1965
  • Modern thinking in management . 1967
  • Management in the social and safety services . Edited with WD Reekie. London 1974
  • Two Early Political Associations: Quakers and the Dissenting Deputies in the Age of Sir Robert Walpole . 1979

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Widow of former Rector of Exeter College dies at 83 on oxfordtimes.co.uk v. February 10, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Crowther Hunt, Norman, Baron Crowther-Hunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British scientist and politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1987
Place of death Oxford