John Towers (businessman) Industry Corporation (SAIC). Towers was heavily criticised for his role in the company's demise, and the Phoenix Consortium's conduct relating to Rover Group was initially referred to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), although after initial investigations the SFO concluded that no further action would be taken. Following publication of a government report into the failure of MG Rover, Towers - along with the other directors of Phoenix - have been disqualified from holding any company office in the United Kingdom or have undertaken not to do so. Towers, together with the other members of PVH, ran MG Rover into the
John Stephenson (zoologist) John Stephenson (zoologist) Prof John Stephenson CIE FRS FRSE FRCS (6 February 1871, Padiham, Lancashire - 2 February 1933, London) was a surgeon and zoologist. He was a leading expert on the earthworms of the Indian subcontinent. After education at Burnley Grammar School, Stephenson matriculated at Owen's College, Manchester and graduated there B.Sc. (Lond.) in 1890 and M.B., B.Chir. (Manc.) in 1893. Stephenson was a house physician from 1893 to 1894 at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then in 1894 at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London. He joined the Indian Medical Service as a lieutenant on