Bayan mutuwar iyayensa, Hunt ya gano cewa mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a Bush House, to, hedkwatar BBC World Service radio, mai yiwuwa a hankali, ko da yake ba a san abin da ya yi ba. A shekara ta 1945, Richard ya zama mai kula da Rubutun Yammacin Yamma a Bodleian Library, kuma iyalin suka koma Oxford. A shekara ta takwas, an karɓi Hunt a Makarantar Dragon, inda ya fara sha'awar ilmin halitta godiya ga malaminsa na Jamus, Gerd Sommerhoff. Lokacin da yake da shekaru goma sha huɗu, sai ya koma Makarantar Magdalen, inda kimiyya ke ɗauke da sunansa, ya zama mai sha'awar kimiyya har ma ya ba da damar nazarin batutuwa irin su ilmin sunadarai da zoology.
Makarantar Dragon