Richard William Hunt (11 April 1908 – 13 November 1979)[1] was a scholar, grammarian, palaeographer, editor, and author of a number of books about medieval history.

He began his career as a lecturer in palaeography at Liverpool University, and worked at Bush House during World War II.

[2] On 11 December 1939 he married Edith Irene Joyce Twamley at Spondon.

[3] On Hunt's retirement from the Bodleian in 1975, he was honoured with an Oxford exhibition, The Survival of Ancient Literature, as well as a collection of essays.

[4] His death in 1980 was marked by a second major exhibition, Manuscripts at Oxford.