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

Arthur Frederick Hertz was born in

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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

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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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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

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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 Gerald Berkeley Hurst. 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 British gastroenterologists