Fred Hurll

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Fred Hurll | native_name =  | native_name_lang =  | image =  | alt = | caption = | order = | office = The Boy Scouts Association Chief Executive Commissioner | predecessor = | successor = }} '''Alfred William "Fred" Hurll''' CVO CBE (1905–1991) was The Boy Scouts Association's General Secretary and then Chief Executive Commissioner.<ref name="Wilson 1959">{{cite book | first = John S. | last = Wilson | author-link = J. S. Wilson | date = 1959 | title = Scouting Round the World | edition = First |publisher = Blandford Press |pages = 126, 225, 279}}</ref>

==Background== Hurll and T. Glad Bincham visited post-war Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in October 1945. They made contacts with the leaders of the Scout Movement in these countries and learnt of how Scouting had played a part during the occupation and how it proposed to meet the future. In Luxembourg, they were received by Robert Schaffner, the Scout Commissioner, who had been elected mayor of the ruined town of Echternach the day before and was already drawing up plans for its reconstruction.<ref name="Wilson 1959"/>

Hurll and John Frederick Colquhoun, the Boy Scouts Association Commissioner for Relations, were the organizers of the 1st World Scout Indaba (a gathering of Scout Leaders from around the world) which took place at Gilwell Park for a week in July 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/biogs-s-w.htm |title=Reference to 1st Indaba |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120908222323/http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/biogs-s-w.htm |archivedate=2012-09-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1957, Hurll was Deputy Camp Chief at the 9th World Scout Jamboree which was held at Sutton Park, Birmingham, England.

In 1966 Hurll was cited as being confident that the movement could reach one million members by 1975.<ref name="SAG">{{Cite news|title=The Sun|date=16 April 1966}}</ref>

In 1969, Hurll was awarded the World Organization of the Scout Movement's 54th ''Bronze Wolf'', its only distinction, for exceptional services to world Scouting.

==Works== * 1961: {{Cite book |last1=Hazlewood |first1=Rex |title=B-P's Scouts: an official history of The Boy Scouts Association |last2=Collis |first2=Henry |author3-link=Fred Hurll |last3=Fred Hurll |publisher=Colins |year=1961 |location=London |oclc=17594720 |author-link= Rex Hazlewood}}<ref name="Regina">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pr1UAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Rex+Hazlewood%22&pg=PA16&article_id=934,4271756|title= Scout Story| work = Regina Leader-Post | date = 1961-04-21}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Portal|Scouting}} *[https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list complete list] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053624/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List |date=29 November 2020 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurll, Alfred}} Category:1905 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award Category:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Scouting and Guiding in the United Kingdom