Francis Hurt

Hurt was born at Rock House Cromford, the son of Francis Edward Hurt and his wife Elizabeth Arkwright, the daughter of Richard Arkwright Junior.

He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1860,[3] Deputy Lieutenant and J. P.[4] In 1851, he rebuilt in stone an Observatory called Crich Stand on a limestone cliff overlooking Crich.

[5] This was rebuilt in 1923 as a Memorial Tower for those of the Sherwood Foresters regiment who died in battle, particularly in World War I.

Hurt also built a wooden house on a height in the Alderwasley woods in 1857 which was used for picnics.

Their son Captain Francis R. Hurt was killed in the Crimean War in the attack on the Redan on 18 June 1855.