John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley
The Lord Hunt of Fawley CBE, MA, DM, FRCP, FRCS, FRCGP, FRACGP | |
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| Born | 3 July 1905 |
| Died | 28 December 1987 (aged 82) Fawley, Henley on Thames, England |
| Education | Charterhouse School |
| Alma mater | St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College University of Oxford |
| Occupation | General Practitioner |
| Known for | Co-founding RCGP |
| Spouse | Elisabeth Evill |
| Children | 5 |
John Henderson Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (3 July 1905 – 28 December 1987) was a British general practitioner (GP) who, in 1952, co-founded the College of General Practitioners. In 1967 the royal prefix was approved and the college was renamed the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He became its president in the same year.
Hunt was born in India, the son of a surgeon, and sent to England as a young child, accompanied by his mother. Educated at Charterhouse School and then at Oxford, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical College and qualified in 1931. His early house jobs were at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and later at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London.
During the Second World War, he was a Wing Commander with the Royal Air Force. On his return to civilian life, he entered general practice, working in Sloane Street, London. He was president of the Hunterian Society, the Section of General Practice at the Royal Society of Medicine, the Harveian Society and the Medical Society of London. In 1973 he was the first GP to be made a life peer as Baron Hunt of Fawley, of Fawley in the County of Buckingham.