Henry George Bonavia Hunt

Rev Henry George Bonavia Hunt FRSE FRAS FLS (1847–1917) was the founder of the Trinity College of Music in London, one of the London conservatoires of music and an International Examining Institutions.

He was a British subject born on 30 July 1847 in Valletta, Malta, the son of William Hunt, who was engaged there as both private secretary and lay vicar to the Bishop of Jerusalem. His mother was Marietta Bonavia, a local woman. His paternal grandfather, also William Hunt, born 1790 in Sutton, Suffolk, was a brush maker.

He was educated privately then studied Music firstly at Christ Church College in Oxford University (graduating BA) then the University of Dublin where he gained a doctorate (MusD).

Hunt was ordained in the Church of England in 1878. At first he was a curate in Surrey and later became warden of Trinity College. He was then Curate of St James Piccadilly in London. He then began lecturing in the History of Music at London University. His final role was as Rector of Burgess Hill School, a girls school in Sussex.

In 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to musical education. His proposers were William Garden Blaikie, John Stuart Blackie, Hugh Macmillan and William Durham.

He died on 27 September 1917.

He is buried with his wife, Madeline (1853-1937), in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist in Burgess Hill.

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