John Towers (businessman) John Towers (businessman) John Towers CBE (born 30 March 1948) is an English businessman, who was the owner and managing director of MG Rover Group from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005. This followed a succession of senior appointments within Rover, which he had joined from Massey Ferguson in 1988. Towers started his career in 1966 as a student apprentice with Perkins Engines of Peterborough, which by that time had become a subsidiary of Massey Ferguson. He rose within Perkins to become Director of Engineering before leaving in 1988 to join the Rover Group. Together with Peter Beale,
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