Margery Hurst OBE (née Berney; 23 May 1913 – 11 February 1989), was a British businesswoman, and the founder of the recruitment agency Brook Street Bureau, which when it went public in 1965, was the world's largest office employment agency.
[1] She was educated at Brondesbury and Kilburn High School, London, followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
[1] She started acting while still a RADA student, two nights a week with the repertory company at Collins's Music Hall, which her father had just bought.
[2][3] In a 1965 report in Time magazine, shortly before the company went public in an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange, Hurst was described as one of Britain's richest women, and the head of the UK's largest secretarial employment agency, and was quoted as saying, "I never thought for a moment that I could fail".
[1] In her later years, Hurst had "a series of mental breakdowns", and died on 11 February 1989 at her home in London's Eaton Square.