George Ward Hunt

George Ward Hunt ( born July 30, 1825 Buckhurst, Berkshire, † July 29, 1877 in Bad Homburg ) was a British statesman.

George Ward Hunt was educated at Oxford, in 1851 Barrister and after he had applied several times in vain for a parliamentary seat in 1857 Member of Parliament for Northampton.

He joined the Conservative Party on, marked by diligence and zeal and made especially noticeable by the energy with which he got through a rural interests favorable cattle plague law against the government draft.

It was in 1866 Secretary of the Treasury under Lord Derby and increased in February 1868 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister), but which office he resigned in the resignation of the Conservative Cabinet in December of the same year.

In the cabinet Disraeli he took over in February 1874 the post of First Lord of the Admiralty, but the vigorous prosecution of the slave trade made ​​by a decree preventing very unpopular.