Michael Vyvyan Spurway OBE (24 January 1909 – 7 July 2007) was a British civil servant in the Colonial Service and later a businessman. He also played county cricket for Somerset, and served as a pilot in the RAF in the Second World War.
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Early life
Spurway and his twin sister were born in Heathfield near Taunton in Somerset, the youngest of six children. His father, Edward Spurway, the local rector, died on 8 February 1914, and three elder brothers were killed in the First World War: two of these brothers, George Vyvan Spurway (1893–1918) and Richard Popham Spurway (1890–1915), attended Sherborne School and their names are recorded in the School's Book of Remembrance. His mother Gertrude Mary Spurway (née Bagnall) was left in difficult circumstances, bringing up her two youngest children. Spurway's surviving brother Francis Spurway was an adult by this time.
He was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, and read history at Christ Church, Oxford. He enjoyed sports, playing cricket for his college, and winning a half Blue playing hockey for Oxford University. He also flew with the University Air Squadron.