1. Robert Philip Andrew Hurd was an influential conservation architect.
18 Facts About Robert Hurd
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Robert Hurd came to Scotland in 1930 and worked at the Edinburgh College of Art for two years as assistant to the architect and planner Frank Mears.
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Robert Hurd was an early and highly respected conservation architect and wrote and broadcast on Scottish architecture, planning and reconstruction.
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Robert Hurd suffered from polio in early life and walked his whole life with a limp.
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Robert Hurd was educated at Marlborough College and then the LCC Central School of Arts.
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Robert Hurd had developed a love of Scotland during childhood holidays with his grandparents in Dundee and on student walking holidays in the Highlands.
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Robert Hurd came to live in Scotland in 1930 and completed his architectural studies at Edinburgh College of Art.
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Robert Hurd was an early member of the National Trust for Scotland and author of one of its first major publications, Scotland Under Trust.
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Robert Hurd took an active interest in the arts in general and served on a number of Edinburgh International Festival committees.
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Robert Hurd served on the Councils of the Edinburgh Architectural Association and the Edinburgh Film Guild.
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Robert Hurd restored Lambs House in Leith and Hamilton House in East Lothian in 1937.
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Robert Hurd's firm undertook work in Old Aberdeen and in the West Highlands.
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Robert Hurd campaigned against the loss of George Square and in 1959 he was commissioned to restore the west side for University use.
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Robert Hurd was strongly interested in the arts and helped found the Scottish Georgian Society, was an advisor to the BBC in Scotland, and helped to set up the Edinburgh Festival.
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Robert Hurd's only noteworthy project of contemporary rather than historic idiom is a scheme of modernist flats at Ravelston Gardens, Edinburgh.
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Also an outsider in other senses Robert Hurd never joined the RIBA.
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Robert Hurd was homosexual and had a single lifelong partner from around 1935.
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Robert Hurd died whilst on holiday in Switzerland, but his body was flown home and his was the last full interment within the otherwise closed-to-burial Canongate Kirkyard.