I whanau a Hunt i te 19 o Hui-tanguru 1943 i Neston, Cheshire, ki a Richard William Hunt, he kaiwhakaako i roto i te paleography i Liverpool, me Kit Rowland, tamahine o te kaihokohoko rakau. I muri i te matenga o ona matua e rua, i kitea e Hunt kua mahi tona papa i Bush House, ka te tari matua o te reo irirangi BBC World Service, tino pea i roto i te matauranga, ahakoa e kore e mohiotia te mea i mahi ia. I roto i te 1945, Richard riro Keeper o te Western Tuhinga i te Bodleian Library, a ka neke te whānau ki Oxford. I te waru o nga tau, i whakaaetia Hunt ki te Dragon School, i reira i whakawhanakehia e ia te hiahia i roto i te koiora whakawhetai ki tona kaiako Tiamana, Gerd Sommerhoff. A, no te tekau ma wha ia, ka neke ia ki Magdalen College, i reira te pūtaiao e mau nei i tona ingoa, ka riro ia atu hiahia i roto i te pūtaiao, me te tuku ia ia ki te ako kaupapa pērā i te haumanu me te reo, ahakoa e kore e
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