Dame Catherine Reeve Hunt DBE JP (née Hawkins; 22 December 1854 – 18 October 1948) was an English politician and activist who was mayor of Colchester, Essex, in 1924–25.
[1] Hunt was born in 1854, the daughter of Charles Henry Hawkins, of Maitlands, Colchester and Sarah Jane, daughter of John Bawtree, of Abberton, Essex.
[2] She married Dr Edgar Atlee Hunt, her aunt's widower, in 1896.
[8] For many years she served as chairman of the Colchester branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association and the Colchester Local War Pensions Committee.
For these services she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.