David James Fletcher Hunt,Baron Hunt of Wirral,MBE,PC (born 21 May 1942) is a British Conservative politician who served as a member of the Cabinet during the Thatcher and Major ministries,and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1990.
Born in Glyn Ceiriog in 1942,the son of former Royal Naval Reserves Officer Alan N. Hunt OBE and Jessie E. E. Northrop,David Hunt was the middle child of three,with two sisters. Growing up,David was an active member of the Young Conservatives where he was inspired into running for political office for the Conservative Party.
In the 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours,he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hunt of Wirralof Wirral in the county of Merseyside.[3] Lord Hunt was senior partner at the national law firm Beachcroft Wansbroughs (now DAC Beachcroft) between 1996 and 2005. He is now chairman of the firm's financial services division and is regarded as a major figure in the world of insurance and financial services. On certain Bills he used to occasionally step back up to the opposition front bench in the House of Lords,on an ad hoc basis. On 7 October 2008,Conservative leader David Cameron formally appointed him to the front bench to shadow Peter Mandelson in the House of Lords on Department for Business,Enterprise and Regulatory Reform matters.
Hunt was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Bristol on 21 February 2008. He is vice-president of the Holocaust Educational Trust.[4] He became chairman of the Press Complaints Commission on 17 October 2011.[5] In December 2011 he recommended closing the PCC and replacing it with an alternative independent press regulator.[6]
Arms
Coat of arms of David Hunt,Baron Hunt of Wirral
Crest
Statant upon a portcullis chained Or an oyster catcher wings elevated and addorsed Proper holding in its beak by the strings Gules a bugle horn or garnished Gules.
Escutcheon
Azure a stag's head caboshed Argent on a chief Or a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper between two ostrich feathers Sable.
Supporters
Dexter a lion Azure resting the dexter forepaw on an anchor Or,sinister a dragon Azure resting the sinister foreclaws on a pickaxe head downwards Or.
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