Herbert Hurrey

Herbert Grindell Hurrey (27 January 1888 – 16 December 1961) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League who played for Melbourne University Football Club in the VFL from 1908 to 1913.^[1]

Herbert Hurrey
Personal information
Full name	Herbert Grindell Hurrey
Date of birth	27 January 1888
Place of birth	Herberton, Queensland
Date of death	16 December 1961(1961-12-16) (aged 73)
Place of death	Chatswood, New South Wales
Original team(s)	Scotch College
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1908–1913	University	101 (29)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
Career highlights
Games record holder for University
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Hurrey played the most VFL/AFL games for the university club, with 101, and was the only player to play 100 games or more for the club in the top level of senior Australian rules football.^[2]

Family

The third son of Charles Gisborne Hurrey (1846-1919),^[3] and Norah Hurrey (1852-1930), née O'Neill,^[4] Herbert Grindell Hurrey was born at Herberton, Queensland on 27 January 1888.

He married Nina Ethel Crockett (1891-1974), on 25 September 1914.^[5] They had five children, one of whom, a son, was born premature and died soon after his birth.^[6]

Education

He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne,^[7][8] and at the University of Melbourne, from whence he graduated (in absentia) as Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) on 4 April 1914^[9] — his "in absentia" graduation was due to his decision to move to South Australia and begin practising medicine there — and where he was awarded a full blue for football in October 1913.

Football

In 1912, he played in the centre for a representative VFL side against a combined Bendigo Football Association team, at Bendigo, on 3 July 1912.^[10]

In 1913, he was elected captain of the university team;^[11] and, on 16 August 1913, replacing Fitzroy's Harold McLennan (who was injured and could not play) in the team that had played in Adelaide on 12 July 1913, he played in the centre for Victoria, in its return match against South Australia, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[12] Due to his move to South Australia, he was unable to continue playing VFL football in 1914.

Military service

A Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve,^[13] he served as a medical officer in the First World War:

"Surgeon-Lieut. [Herbert Grindell Hurrey], R.A.N. … left Brisbane October 21st, 1915, with the H.M.A. Destroyer Flotilla (Warrego, Yarra, and Parramatta), as M.O. in charge of flotilla. Service on high seas, Pacific, and China Station. Patrolling duties until April 21st, 1917. …"^[14]

Medical practitioner

Registration

Having moved to South Australia following his final examinations at Melbourne University in 1913, he was registered, by the South Australian Medical Board, as a legally qualified medical practitioner for the State of South Australia on 9 April 1914.^[15]

His name (reg. no.4602) was removed from the Register of Medical Practitioners for New South Wales on 4 October 1961.^[16]

Health Officer

In 1919, he was appointed as Health Officer for the Kedron Shire Council in Queensland.^[17]

Partnership

In late 1924 he began practising in Rozelle and Balmain, New South Wales in joint partnership with Charles Herbert Wesley;^[18] the partnership was dissolved on 1 May 1925.^[19]

Goodyear Rubber factory

In September 1948 he was appointed medical officer for the Sydney factory of the Goodyear Rubber Company.^[20][21]

Death

He died at Chatswood, New South Wales on 16 December 1961.^[22]

Footnotes

1. The University Team, The Leader, (Saturday, 4 May 1912), p.29.
2. Melbourne University Football Club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1885-1888 and in the VFL from 1908-1914.
3. Deaths: Hurrey, The Argus, (Saturday, 1 November 1919), p.13.
4. Deaths: Hurrey, The Argus, (Saturday, 18 October 1930), p.13.
5. Marriages: Hurrey—Crockett, The Age, (Saturday, 7 November 1914), p.5.
6. Births: Hurrey, The Queenslander, (Saturday, 2 July 1915), p.9; Deaths: Hurrey, The Queenslander, (Saturday, 2 July 1915), p.10.
7. Matriculation Results: Melbourne Candidates, The Australasian, (Saturday, 13 January 1906), p.38.
8. Interstate Football: Visit of Scotch College Players: The Players for Scotch College, The (Adelaide) Observer, (Saturday, 14 July 1906), p.27.
9. Honors Conferred, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Saturday, 4 April 1914), p.4.
10. Football: League (18.11) v. Bendigo (4.5), The Bendigo Independent, (Thursday, 4 July 1912), p.8.
11. 'Old Boy', "Football", The Argus, (Friday, 25 April 1913), p.10.
12. Inter-State Match, The Age, (Monday, 18 August 1913), p.7.
13. A Brief History of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, navy.com.au.
14. Wildman (1919), pp.103-104.
15. South Australian Medical Board, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Friday, 10 April 1914), p.3.
16. New South Wales Medical Board: Removal of Names from Register, Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales, No.111, (Friday, 13 October 1961), p.3193.
17. Health Officers" In Metropolitan Area, The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Saturday, 10 May 1919), p.6.
18. Public Notice, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 11 November 1924), p.6.
19. Public Notice, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 19 May 1925), p.6.
20. Personal, The Townsville Daily Bulletin, (Tuesday, 7 September 1948), p.2.
21. The Cumberland Argus, (Wednesday, 13 February 1952), p.11.
22. Deaths: Hurrey, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Monday, 18 December 1961), p.18.

References

• Wildman, Owen (1919), "Hurrey, Herbert Grenfell", Queenslanders Who Fought in the Great War, Besley and Pike, (Brisbane), pp.103-104, 145.
• World War One Service Record: Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Grenfell Hurrey, National Archives of Australia.
• The Naval Review (photograph), The (Brisbane) Daily Mail, (Tuesday, 4 September 1923), p.9.
• Valedictory: Farewell to Dr. H. G. Hurrey, The Bowen Independent, (Friday, 2 April 1948), p.7.

External links

• Herbert Hurrey's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Herbert Hurrey at AustralianFootball.com