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Up for sale a RARE! "President The Hague" Cecil Hurst Hand Written 2 Page Letter.
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Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst, GCMG, KCB, QC (28 October 1870 – 27 March 1963) was a British international lawyer. He worked from 1929 to 1945
as a judge to the Permanent
Court of International Justice in The Hague, serving from 1934 to 1936 as president of the
court. Hurst was born in Horsham, Sussex, the son of Robert Henry Hurst (1817–1905)
and Matilda Jane Scott.[1] His father and paternal
grandfather, Robert Henry Hurst (1788–1857),
were both Members of was educated at Westminster College, Cambridge,
earning an LL.B. in 1892. In
June 1902, Hurst began a career in the British Foreign Office as Assistant Legal Adviser. In 1918
he became Principal Legal Adviser. During this time Hurst was a delegate
of Great Britain at the Hague Convention in
1907, and one year later with London Naval Conference,
at which maritime law was
crafted. After the end of World War I he attended the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. During the 1920s he represented
Great Britain several times before the Permanent Court. In 1929 he became a
member of the Permanent
Court of International Justice, and remained a member up to its
dissolution in October 1945. During this time he worked from 1934 to 1936 as a
president and afterwards until 1945 as a vice-president of the court. Hurst was
honored as CB in 1907, KC in 1913, KCB in 1920, KCMG in 1924, and GCMG in 1926.
The University of Cambridge awarded
him an honorary doctorate in 1928. An oil painting of Hurst, by British artist
William Dring A.R.A, can be seen in the Library of Horsham Museum.
