Harold Hunt (professor)

Harold Arthur Kinross Hunt FAHA (16 March 1903 – 11 April 1977) was an Australian educationist who was Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Melbourne and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

[2] Hunt was born at Dubbo, New South Wales, the third child of Harold Wesley George Hunt (1867-1903), founder and Headmaster of Dubbo Boys Grammar School,[3] and his wife Grace Matilda (née Henderson).

[6] He also won the university medal and the Cooper Travelling Scholarship, which enabled him to take a Master of Arts at Queen's College, Oxford in 1926.

In 1931 he became senior classics master and whilst at "Grammar" was involved in debating, rowing, rifle-shooting and the cadet corps.

After retiring, Hunt published The Story of Rotary in Australia (1971), The Professor and the Possum (1973), The Master Printers of Sydney (1976) and A Physical Interpretation of the Universe: The Doctrines of Zeno the Stoic (1976).