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Name
  
David Hunt


Role
  
Diplomat

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Died
  
July 1998, London, United Kingdom

Books
  
Memoirs Military and Diplomatic

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Sir David Hunt (25 September 1913 – 30 July 1998) was a British diplomat, best remembered as winner of the BBC's Mastermind television quiz in 1977.

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Hunt was born in Durham, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford. He served with distinction in World War II, and entered the diplomatic service in 1947. He served as Private Secretary to prime ministers Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, and was knighted in 1963. From 1965 to 1967 he was the British High Commissioner to Cyprus. He later served as High Commissioner to Nigeria and then as British Ambassador to Brazil, retiring in 1973.

Hunt won the Mastermind title in 1977 and was runner-up in the Mastermind International of 1979.

In 1982, a Champion of Champions tournament between the first ten Mastermind champions was televised. Sir David Hunt won the overall title.

=Publications==

Hunt had a number of books published:</ref>

  • A Don at War. London: F. Cass. 1990 [1966]. ISBN 978-0-7146-3383-1. 
  • On the spot: an ambassador remembers. London: P. Davies. 1975. ISBN 978-0-432-06962-2. 
  • Memoirs military and diplomatic (Revised ed.). London: Trigraph. 2006 [1998]. ISBN 978-0-947961-10-7.  A revised edition of the two books A Don at war and On the spot: an ambassador remembers.
  • Footprints in Cyprus : an illustrated history. London: Trigraph. 1990 [1982]. ISBN 978-0-9508026-7-1. . Co-authored with J.N. Coldstream

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