Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst, aka Arthur Frederick Hertz FRCP (23 July 1879 – 17 August 1944) was a British physician, and a cofounder of the

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. The society's annual lecture is named for him.

Biography

Aurthur Frederick Hertz was born in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

to Fanny Mary and William Martin Hertz, a merchant of German Jewish descent. Hertz changed the spelling of his surname to Hurst in 1916. He attended

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and

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before graduating from

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in 1904. He joined the staff of

Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. ...

in 1906 and ran his own private practice before serving in

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as a consulting physician stationed in

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. From 1916 to 1918, Hurst led the neurology department at

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. Seale-Hayne College was repurposed as a military hospital that same year. Hurst moved there to help with treatment of

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, working at Netley until 1919. After the war, Hurst relocated his private practice to Windsor and retired in 1939. Upon his retirement, Hurst became a consulting physician and served on Guy's Hospital board of governors. Hurst was knighted in 1937 six years after his older brother

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. He died in

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in 1944, aged 65. Hurst was married to New Zealander Cushla Harriette Riddiford from 2 October 1912 to his death on 17 August 1944. They had three children, a son and two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurst, Arthur Frederick 1879 births 1944 deaths Medical doctors from Bradford 20th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British Army personnel of World War I People educated at Bradford Grammar School People educated at Manchester Grammar School English people of German-Jewish descent Riddiford family