Robert Henry Hurst (junior)

Robert Henry Hurst (1 June 1817 – 12 February 1905) was an English Liberal Party politician and Recorder for Hastings and Rye.

He was educated at Westminster School and studied jurisprudence at Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was defeated at the 1868 by the Conservative Party candidate John Aldridge, but petitions were lodged against both candidates and Aldridge chose not to defend his claim so Hurst was declared elected in 1869.

He was defeated in the 1874 general election by the Conservative William Vesey-FitzGerald, but when Vesey-FitzGerald was appointed as Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales in 1875, he was required by the rules at the time to seek re-election.

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