Philip Vassar Hunter CBE (c. 1883 – (1956-10-22)22 October 1956) was a British engineer and businessman.
Born in 1883 in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, he attended Wisbech Grammar School and was later educated at Faraday House, an engineering college in Charing Cross, London.
[1] During the First World War, he served as the Engineering Director in the experiments and research section of the anti-submarine division of the Naval Staff[2] and was appointed a CBE in January 1920.
[3] In the Second World War, he invented the buoyant cable, which significantly contributed to the defeat of the magnetic mine.
Under his leadership, the team achieved the remarkable feat of winning the gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics.