Alan Gillespie was born on 25 May 1928. He studied medicine at London University and trained at University College Hospital (UCH), graduating MB, BS with first class honours in 1951. After initial house jobs at UCH and the Samaritan Hospital for Women in London, he was appointed senior registrar in

Frank Loeffler was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's hospitals, London. He was born in India of Austrian parents, Ernst and Bianka. His father was a businessman who had moved to India in the 1920s. Loeffler lived in the elegant style of the Raj and went t