Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt
Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther - Hunt ( born March 13, 1920 in Bradford, † 16 February 1987 in Oxford) was a British scientist and Labour Party politician.
Early years and education
Norman Hunt visited the Belle Vue High School in Bradford and studied history at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In 1949, he received a research grant and studied American politics at Princeton University. In 1952 he was awarded a scholarship in politics at Exeter College, Oxford.
Career
Hunt was a regular in radio and television broadcasts of BBD guest and hosted a weekly broadcast People and Politics on BBC World Service. In 1986, he was Chairman of the Advisory Board (General Advisory Council ) of the BBC.
While Harold Wilson 's first term as prime minister was Norman Hunt 1966-1968 Member of the Fulton Commission, whose chairman John Fulton, Baron Fulton was and suggested ideas for the reform of public administration. In 1969 he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, whose chairman was first Lord Crowther and from 1969 Lord Kilbrandon. During the second term of Wilson from March 1974 Hunt advisor to the government to carry out its proposals for regionalization. He was from October 1974 to 1976 Minister of Education, then Minister of State for the Privy Council Office, where he continued care of the regionalization and the reform of the administration. Finally he stepped back disillusioned by his ministerial office, and in 1976 was again a lecturer at Exeter College. In 1982 he became rector of the college and remained so until his death in 1987. During the same year, the new Crowther -Hunt building was opened in Oxford, for the Hunt and his wife had collected the money.
Family
1944 married Norman Hunt his wife Joyce, daughter of a British missionary who has worked in Saskatchewan. The couple had three daughters. Lady Crowther - Hunt was involved in many different ways for students at Oxford, both in institutions and in private; so she invited students about Christmas in her house, who could not go home.
1990 Lady Crowther - Hunt was the Spanish King Juan Carlos I with the Orden de Isabel la Católica. Their contributions to the establishment of 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 in 1965
- Modern thinking in management. 1967
- Management in the social and safety services. Edited by W. D. Reekie. London 1974