His close friend Peter Harkness said “Alan was an outgoing and extrovert character, and a loyal and generous-minded friend. In the school play in 1948 he was Cassius, in Julius Caesar and he excelled in the school debating society. He also loved the countryside, and would drive his father’s car so we could trek into remote parts of the Peak District. We kept in touch for much of our National Service as we were both stationed at Blackdown in Surrey, and our paths joined again in Oxford where he read law”.

Mr Hurley was a School Prefect and Captain of Maples’ House.

Mr Hurley became articled to a Nottingham firm of solicitors and rose to be a senior partner. In retirement he lived at Clun, in beautiful countryside near the Welsh border. He was active in community and charity work there, and wrote on local history. His chapter From Saxon to Norman Rule in The Gale of Life for the South-West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society, is a remarkably well researched study.

He married the late Elizabeth Redgate in 1956 and they had four daughters. In 1976 he married Janet, who survives him.

Our sincere condolences go to his family and friends at this sad time.