Philip Vassar Hunter

Philip Vassar Hunter CBE (c. 1883 – death date|1956|10|22) was a British engineer and businessman. Born in 1883 he died at his home in Addington, Surrey aged 73.Citation | title = | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 24 October 1956 ]

During the First World War he was the Engineering Director in the experiments and research section of the anti-submarine division of the Naval Staff and was awarded the CBE in January 1920. [Citation | title = | newspaper = London Gazette | date = 30 March 1920 | page = 3767 ] In the Second World War he invented the buoyant cable which contributed to the defeat of the magnetic mine.Citation | title = | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 12 January 1951 | page = 5 ] In 1933 he was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers [cite web| author = The Institution of Engineering and Technology | title = Past Presidents of the IEE | url = http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/presidents-iee.cfm | year = 2007 | accessdate = 2007-11-07 | publisher = ] of which he became on honorary fellow in 1951 [cite web| author = The Institution of Engineering and Technology | title = Honorary Fellows | url = http://www.theiet.org/about/libarc/archives/institution-history/fellows.cfm | year = 2007 | accessdate = 2007-11-07 | publisher = ] for "outstanding service to the electrical industry and to the institution".

He was president of the British Ice Hockey Association from 1934 to 1958 [cite web| author = A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey | title = BIHA | url = http://www.azhockey.com/Bi.htm#BIHA | year = | accessdate = 2007-11-07 | publisher = ] and was responsible for hiring John F "Bunny" Ahearne in 1934 as the Manager of the Great Britain national ice hockey team which went on to win the gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

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