Michael Vincent Hurley was born in 1893 and graduated MB BCh in the National University of Ireland in 1919, in Dublin. After holding a number of junior hospital posts in London he passed the Conjoint Examination and also the FRCS in 1923, and became a registrar at Poplar Hospital in 1924. In 1925

Educated in Australia, he graduated from the University of Sydney in 1920 and then came to London, where he worked at St Mary's and Guy's Hospitals. After taking the Fellowship in 1923 he held resident posts at St George's, the West London and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals. He then marrie