Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst (1870 to 1963) was a British international lawyer born in Horsham, Sussex, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the British Foreign Office in 1902 as Assistant Legal Adviser and rose to Principal Legal Adviser in 1918, taking part in the 1907 Hague Convention, the 1908 to 1909 London Naval Conference and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference drafting committee. He served as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1929 to 1945, and was president of the court from 1934 to 1936. He died in 1963. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Cecil Hurst began a career in the British Foreign Office in June 1902 as Assistant Legal Adviser and became Principal Legal Adviser in 1918. He was a delegate of the United Kingdom at the Hague Convention in 1907 and at the London Naval Conference a year later, and after the First World War he was the British Empire Delegation's representative on the drafting committee at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. During the 1920s he represented Britain several times before the Permanent Court, and in 1929 he became a member of it. He served as its president from 1934 to 1936 and as vice-president until 1945.
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Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst, GCMG, KCB, QC (28 October 1870 - 27 March 1963) was a British international lawyer. He worked from 1929 to 1945 as a judge to the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague, serving from 1934 to 1936 as president of the court.
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Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst, GCMG, KCB, QC (28 October 1870 - 27 March 1963) was a British international lawyer. His father and paternal grandfather, Robert Henry Hurst (1788-1857), were both Members of Parliament (MP) for Horsham.
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Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst, GCMG, KCB, QC (28 October 1870 - 27 March 1963) was a British international lawyer.
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He worked from 1929 to 1945 as a judge to the Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague, serving from 1934 to 1936 as president of the court.
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was a British international lawyer
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Wikidata Q1052312, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1870
Wikidata Q1052312, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1870-10-28
Wikidata Q1052312, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1963
Wikidata Q1052312, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1963-03-27
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P19 (place of birth): Horsham
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P20 (place of death): Horsham
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