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Eric Kenneth Isaac Hurst (13 April 1914 – 1998) was a barrister and Labour Party politician.

Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, he was the son of a Ukranian parents: Wilfred Hurst and his wife Rennie née Poniskovski. He was educated at University School and King George V School, Southport, Harrogate Grammar School and Leeds University. Joined the British Army in 1940 and became a prisoner of war in the Middle East in 1942.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1947 and was sometime chairman of the London Council of Poor Man's Lawyers. By 1948, when he married, he was living in London.

He was a member of the London County Council representing Battersea North from 1952-61.

Unsuccessful Labour parliamentary candidate at Sutton and Cheam at the 1951 general election and at Battersea South at the 1955 general election.

Wikipedia page on his wife Margery Hurst, founder of the recruitment agency Brook Street Bureau [1].

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