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Robert Hurd
Robert Philip Andrew Hurd (29 July 1905 – 17 September 1963) was an influential conservation architect. His original aim was to be an architectural author specialising in traditional forms. He came to Scotland in 1930 and worked in the Edinburgh College of Art with Frank Mears. He is noteworthy as an early and highly respected conservation architect.
==Life==
Hurd suffered from polio in early life and walked his whole life with a limp. The son of Sir Percy Angler Hurd MP and Hannah Swan Cox he was educated at Marlborough College and then the LCC Central School of Arts. Thereafter he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge becoming a close friend of Raymond McGrath and Mansfield Forbes. He came to Scotland in 1930 and completed his architectural studies at Edinburgh College of Art. It is known that as a student he lived in a house at 49 George Square.
He was an early member of the National Trust for Scotland and author of one of its first major publications “Scotland Under Trust” (1938). In the same year he began campaigning to save historic buildings, his first coup being to temporarily rescue Tailors Hall on the Cowgate from demolition.
As an ironic twist Hurd was declared unfit for overseas service but was an officer in the Royal Engineers (1940–46) and was put in charge of removing Edinburgh’s cast-iron railings for the war effort. During this time he also became president of the Saltire Society a role he continued until 1948.
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