Gerald Hurst (politician)

Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst QC (4 December 1877 – 27 October 1957) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Gerald Berkeley Hertz was born in Bradford to Fanny Mary and William Martin Hertz, a wool merchant. His Jewish grandparents on both sides came from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, his Hertz family to Bradford in 1844. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford. Hertz changed the spelling of his surname to Hurst in 1916. Hurst served in the British Army as a lieutenant during World War I and was stationed in the Middle East and France. He married one of the daughters of Alfred Hopkinson, Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University and a Member of Parliament. Their only son was killed in Libya in World War Two.

He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Moss Side from 1918 to 1923 and from 1924 to 1935. He was a keen supporter of Imperial Preference. Hurst was knighted in 1929.[1] In 1938, he was appointed to the county court for Croydon and West Kent. Hurst stepped down from the county judgeship in 1952. From 1947 to 1955, he served as Commissioner of Divorce Cases. His younger brother was Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst.[2]

Coat of arms of Gerald Hurst
Motto
He Giveth Goodly Words [3]
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
constituency created		 Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side
1918 – 1923		 Succeeded by
Thomas Ackroyd
Preceded by
Thomas Ackroyd		 Member of Parliament for Manchester Moss Side
1924 – 1935		 Succeeded by
William Duckworth

References
  1. "No. 33472". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 February 1929. p. 1435.
  2. Rubinstein, William D. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 442–443. ISBN 9780230304666.
  3. "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Ec36 Hurst, G". Baz Manning. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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