John Edward Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. For further details see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Barbara Dorothy Fordyce Evans née Hay-Cooper, medical journalist and writer, was born on 5 June 1909. In 1934, she qualified in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. She married Philip Rainsford Evans CBE (1910-1990), paediatrician, the following year. Between 1939 and 1945, she undertook pathological research in connection with Sir Archibald McIndoe's plastic surgery team at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. She became a freelance medical journalist in the 1950s and spent some time in Vietnam when Philip Evans was working at the Children's Hospital in Saigon. Between 1973 and 1980, she was an editor of the journal World Medicine. She published Life Change, a popular manual on the menopause, in 1979 and Freedom to Choose: the Life and Work of Dr Helena Wright, Pioneer of Contraception in 1984. She died on 5 March 1995.