Gordon Lionel Bourne was a consultant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born on 3 June 1921 at Sudbury in Derbyshire, the second son of Thomas Holland Bourne, a farmer, and Lily Anne Bourne née Clewlow, a former Barts nurse. His primary scho

John Thompson Rowling was a consultant surgeon in Sheffield at the Royal Hospital and later the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He was born in Leeds on 11 March 1921 into a family whose medical connections dated back to Elizabethan times. His father, Herbert Samuel Thompson Rowling, was one of the old s