Hilary Embling obituary

In the 1980s, Hilary Embling volunteered at the CND office in Finsbury Park, north London, with Bruce Kent, and participated in demonstrations at Greenham Common Photograph: provided by family

My mother, Hilary Embling, who has died aged 94, was a teacher, librarian, peace campaigner and leftwing activist.

Born in the town of Croydon to Margaret (nee Bingham) and Graham Down, a bank manager, Hilary was the youngest of five daughters. During the second world war she was a day girl at a private boarding school near Croydon and lived with her grandmother. The rest of the family had moved to Bognor Regis, West Sussex, but her father thought she would be safer away from the coast.