New Zealand-born of Gloucestershire wool-growing stock Hunt was the only son and eldest child of John Hunt, a farmer and early settler at Oruru, Northland, and his wife Maria Frances,[REF] daughter of Jamaica-born Etonian Rev John Duffus M A, vicar of St Andrew, Mangonui [REF].
He was born on 2 December 1867 in Oruru, Northland, New Zealand [REF].