HUNT, Edward Lawrence
Edward Lawrence Hunt was baptised at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 28 July 1880, son of Edward Thomas Hunt, originally a fisherman, and his wife Mary Ann née Hunt, and in 1881 young Edward was living at 4 Camden Street West, Great Yarmouth with his 24-year-old mother Mary Ann and his sister, 6-year-old Mary Elizabeth, who was born at Wellington, New Zealand on 21 January 1874 and emigrated to England on 28 April 1874. In 1891, Edward, sen. was a 38-year-old fireman, living at Fire Brigade Station, Southwark Bridge Road, London with his 34-year-old wife Mary Ann and six children, Mary Elizabeth 16, Edward Lawrence 11, Gracie Watling 8, William Ewart 6, Henry Hendle 2 and newly born Arthur John, the last four born in Southwark. Ten years later Edward, sen. was chief fireman at the British Museum, living with his wife, young Edward, now a 21-year-old commercial traveller, and two siblings. Young Edward married at Southwark, London in 1903, Eveline Dawkins Digby (1 October 1880-22 April 1944) and they came to Ipswich and in 1907 set up the wholesale ironmongery business of E. L. Hunt Ltd in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich. In 1911, 31-year-old Edward, a wholesale ironmonger, and his 30-year-old wife were living at 'Hayton', Rushmere Road, Ipswich and was of Box Bush, Rushmere, Ipswich when elected to the Ipswich Borough Council and was Mayor of Ipswich 1937-1938. An honorary member of the Ipswich Art Society 1941-1949 but does not seem to have exhibited. Edward Lawrence Hunt (69), of Box Bush, Rushmere Road, Ipswich, a guest, collapsed and died during a fire at the Golden Lion Hotel, 10 King Street, Stirling on 23 August 1949, he had no issue and left an estate of some £81,000. The business was continued by his nephew Benjamin Hunt Thompson (1913-2004).