William Nevin Tatlow Hurst
William Nevin Tatlow Hurst, ISO (11 April 1868 – 24 December 1946) was a senior Tasmanian civil servant. In 1925 he succeeded the Tasmanian Surveyor-General, E A Counsel, as the head of the Tasmanian Department of Lands and Surveys, although with the title of Secretary for Lands. The Companionship of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) was bestowed upon him in June 1932. At his retirement in 1938 he had been continuously employed in the department for fifty three years, having joined as a trainee draftsman on 1 July 1885. Tasmania's capital city, Hobart, was where he spent his life, with the suburb of New Town being his home at his birth in 1868, his marriage in 1899 and at his death in 1946. Family background As his full name suggests, Hurst's ancestors were from the families of the Tatlows, the Nevins and the Hursts. Maternal ancestors – Tatlow and Moore Hurst's grandparents, Anthony Tatlow (1791–1861) and Mary Moore (1812–1865) migrated from County Cavan, Ireland, arriving at the Tasmanian port of Hobart Town on 26 June 1833. Their first child, Anthony Tatlow (junior) (1832-1885), made his mark in Stanley, Tasmania. Since 1982 (150 years after his baptism in the Church of