Arthur Frederick Hurst

Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst, FRCP (23 July 1879 – 17 August 1944) was a British physician, and a cofounder of the British Society of Gastroenterology. The society's annual lecture is named for him.[1]

Biography

Aurthur Frederick Hertz was born in Bradford to William Martin Hertz, a merchant of German Jewish descent. Hertz changed the spelling of his surname to Hurst in 1916. He attended Bradford Grammar School and Manchester Grammar School before graduating from Magdalene College, Oxford in 1904. He was the senior physician[2] at Guy's Hospital and ran his own private practice before serving in World War I as a consulting physician stationed in Salonika. After the war, Hurst relocated his private practice to Windsor.[1] Hurst was knighted in 1937,[2] six years after his older brother Gerald Berkeley Hurst. He died in Birmingham in 1944, aged 65.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rubinstein, William D. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 442–443. ISBN 9780230304666.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Coronation Honours List". The British Medical Journal: 1041. May 15, 1937.
  3. ↑ Catalog record for Arthur Frederick Hurst at the United States Library of Congress