11 Facts About Percy Hurd

Sir Percy Angier Hurd was a British journalist and Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years.

Percy Hurd was the first of four generations of Hurds to serve as Conservative MPs.

Percy Hurd was the eldest son of London-based solicitor William Hurd and his wife Elizabeth.

Percy Hurd was editor of The Outlook, a weekly magazine published in London from 1898 to 1928.

Percy Hurd later became editor of the Canadian Gazette and London editor of the Montreal Star and other journals in Canada.

Percy Hurd was a member of the executive committee of the Agricultural Relief of Allies Fund, and twice reported on the needs of the farmers in the provinces of France from which the Germans had been pushed back.

Percy Hurd was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1918 general election as the Coalition Conservative MP for the Frome division of Somerset.

Percy Hurd did not stand again in Frome; at the next general election in October 1924 he stood instead in the Devizes division of Wiltshire, a Conservative-leaning constituency which had been gained by the Liberals in 1923.

Percy Hurd was knighted in the 1932 King's Birthday Honours, "for political and public services".

Percy Hurd used to go round villages in Wiltshire telling funny stories.

In 1893 Percy Hurd married Hannah, daughter of Rev William Jackson Cox, of Dundee, Angus, Scotland, and they had four children:.