Nigel John Spearing (8 October 1930 – 8 January 2017) was a British Labour Party politician who was the MP for Acton from 1970 to 1974, and for Newham South from 1974 to 1997.
[1] He was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
[2] Prior to the February 1974 general election, the Acton constituency underwent major boundary changes and he was defeated in his bid for re-election by the Conservative Party candidate George Young by 1,451 votes.
[3] Spearing then returned to parliament a few weeks later after winning the Newham South by-election (caused by the constituency's MP, Elwyn Jones, being made a life peer in order to take on the role of Lord Chancellor) with a majority of 9,321.
[1] On 8 January 2017, he died in hospital from Alzheimer's disease, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham; he was 86.