Full name | Andrew Charles Brunel Hurst | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1935-10-01)1 October 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cairo, Egypt | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 15 March 2011(2011-03-15) (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||
School | Dragon School | ||||||||||||||||
University | University of Oxford | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Solicitor | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Charles Brunel Hurst (1 October 1935 – 15 March 2011) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Hurst was the youngest son of hydrologist Harold Edwin Hurst and a descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Raised in Oxfordshire, Hurst was educated at the Dragon School and University of Oxford.
An Oxfordshire Youth Services product, Hurst played his senior rugby with Wasps and was capped once by England, as a winger against Scotland at Murrayfield during the 1962 Five Nations Championship.
Hurst was a solicitor by profession. He met his wife Bernadita Barriga on a rugby union tour to Chile.
See also
References
- Ward, Robert (2013). Wealth and Notoriety. ISBN 1291334777.
- "Scots favourites but England will be hard to beat". Daily Post. 17 March 1962.
- Chipperfield, John (12 November 2012). "Rugby player caught bride". Oxford Mail.
External links
- Andrew Hurst at ESPNscrum
- Andrew Hurst at England Rugby