John Clive Gingell was usually known by his second name, Clive and as JCG by his work colleagues. Born in Penygraig in the Rhondda Valley in his grandfather’s house, he was the eldest of four children, having three sisters. He attended Kettering Grammar School before moving to Porth County Grammar

Richard Wellesley Morgan Rees was a consultant urologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He was born on 13 January 1935 in Stourbridge, Staffordshire, the son of Theodore Foulkes Rees, a pharmacist, and Edith Louise Rees née Colley. He studied medicine at the University of Birmingham