Andrew Hurst | |
Full Name: | Andrew Charles Brunel Hurst |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1935 |
Birth Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
Occupation: | Solicitor |
School: | Dragon School |
University: | University of Oxford |
Position: | Wing |
Repyears1: | 1962 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
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.[1]
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.[2]
Hurst was a solicitor by profession. He met his wife Bernadita Barriga on a rugby union tour to Chile.[3]