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 F. W. J. HURST. 



Mr. Hurst, twenty-second President of the So- 

 ciety, was born at St. John's Antigua, British West 

 Indies, on 13th February, 1840, the only son of 

 Alphonse John Hurst, of the firm of Hurst & 

 Turner, of that place. Educated at Bermuda, he 

 commenced his mercantile career with the firm of 

 C. W. & W. Gray, of Great St. Helens, London, 

 in 1856. In 1859 he was in the office of Guion & 

 Co., of Liverpool, and in 1861 became managing 

 clerk and agent for Edward Lawrence & Co., at Ber- 

 muda, Nassau, Havana, and in the Confederate States 

 from August 1863 to the close of the Civil War in 

 1865. He was appointed manager for the United 

 States of the National Steamship Company of Liv- 

 erpool in 1866, residing in New York, in which year 

 he was elected a member of the St. George's So- 

 ciety, His name soon appeared upon the list of 

 officers, for he was elected Assistant Secretary and 

 a Steward in 1867, and a member of the Charitable 

 Committee in 1868. With the late Edward Walker 

 he was largely instrumental in facilitating the work- 

 ing of the revised Constitution in 1869, under which 

 the Society changed the style of its officers, and was 

 eleeted in that year a member of the first Executive 

 Committee. He was Vice-President 1870 to 1873. 

 President 1880 to 1882, and upon the decease of 



