Anthony Hunt | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Anthony-Hunt_(3).png) Likeness engraved by S. W. Reynolds after James Northcote, 1797 | |
| Died | 1798 |
| Allegiance | Great Britain |
| Service | Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1789–1798 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Commands | HMS Tisiphone HMS Amphitrite HMS Concorde HMS Virginie |
| Battles / wars | |
Captain Anthony Hunt (died 1798) was a post-captain in the Royal Navy who died young. He served as midshipman in the Carnatic in August 1789 and was shortly thereafter commissioned lieutenant. He was promoted post-captain in 1791, and appointed to the Amphitrite, which was wrecked under his command in late 1793. In 1796 he was promoted from the Concorde to the Virginie, and in her carried the Earl of Mornington on his passage to India. Arriving in Madras early in 1798, Hunt soon caught a violent fever and died.