My husband, Nick Spurrier, who has died of lung cancer aged 69, was a seller of secondhand books and a writer whose enthusiasm, energy and campaigning zeal made him a popular figure in his adopted town of Folkestone, Kent.
The son of Robert, a doctor, and Joan (nee Haslop), Nick was born in London but grew up in Grinshill, Shropshire. After Shrewsbury school he moved to London and took his A-levels at Tottenham technical college, from where he went on to study history at the London School of Economics (1970-73).
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