Career
Hurt was a student of postal history even as a teenager and eventually specialized in the study of local post stamps of the world. Hurt wrote extensively on the subject of stamp collecting, but concentrated his writing efforts on the subject of local posts, such as his article on The Mail Service To and From Greenland under the Royal Greenland Company. He also co-authored The Danube Steam Navigation Company with fellow author Denwood Kelly.
He also edited and published several journals: The Record of Philately and the specialized local post journal, The Illustrated Philatelic Record.
