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George Hunt was born in 1854 at Fort Rupert, British Columbia (B.C.), the second of eleven children of Robert Hunt (1828-1893), a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader from Dorset, England, and Mary Ebbetts (Ansnaq, Anislaga, A'naeesla'ga or Anain) (1823-1919), a member of the Raven clan of the Taantakwáan tribe of the Tlingit nation of what is now southeastern Alaska.
Born in Chicago, Hunt's career began in Bennie Moten's band in 1932. After Moten's death in 1935 he joined the Count Basie Orchestra, traveling to perform in New York City with them in 1936. [ 1 ] He left the Basie band the following year, and joined Fletcher Henderson before leaving in 1938.
George Hunt (July 6, 1933 – December 4, 2020) was a Southern American artist, best known for his portraits of Blues musicians and illustrations for Blues Festivals, which ended up in many private collections in addition to galleries, museums, and the walls of Memphis businesses. He was primarily a painter, though he added collage highlights ...
George Hunt (Royal Navy officer) (1916–2011), highly decorated Second World War submarine commander; George Hunt (MP) (c. 1720–1798), British politician; George Nelson Hunt III (1931–2022), Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island; G. W. Hunt (George William Hunt, 1837–1904), English writer of music hall songs
George Hunt Barton. George Hunt Barton (1852–1933) was an American geologist, arctic explorer, and college professor. He was an alumnus and faculty member in geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as the director of the Teachers' School of Science in Boston and was the founding president of the Boston Children's Museum.
George Hunt (27 February 1922 – 1987) was an English footballer who played as a right back. He left school at the age of 14 and began work in the Great Western Railway Works . Hunt originally played football as an amateur for local team Ferndale Athletic, but joined the Army on the outbreak of World War II .
George Edward Hunt may refer to: George E. Hunt (1896–1959), English cricketer George Edward Hunt (jeweller) (1892–1960), Birmingham Arts and Crafts jeweller
There was a contest at Bodmin in the 1768 general election and Hunt topped the poll, Hunt was returned for Bodmin again in 1774 and 1780. In 1780, the English Chronicle wrote “George Hunt, Esq. is a gentleman of independent fortune, and resides in the neighbourhood of this borough, in which he possesses sufficient influence to command an ...