Herbert Hunter (born 29th November 1912 in Ossett), died two years before I was born in March 1983 of a heart attack. He was a public health inspector.

He married Frieda Gartside (born 9th February 1926 in Holt). They lived in Macclesfield and later Leicester and Sheringham in Norfolk. Frieda would later die of lung cancer in January 1989 in Ashton-U-Lyme.

Herbert and Frieda had four children - Anthony (27th January 1951), Kathryn (my mother, born 1955), Richard (born 1963) and Julia (born 1969).