John Daniel Crowley was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He was born in Greymouth, New Zealand on 18 July 1926, and was educated at St Bede’s College in Christchurch during the Second World War. He then studied medicine at Otago, qualifying in 1952. He went to t

Richard Sears ('Dick') was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 19 March 1924, the son of Herbert Sears, a corn merchant, and his wife Evelyn Ruth Sears née Tankard, a housewife. He was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and at Epsom Colle