Biography from The Royal Australian College of Physicians website:
Qualifications: MBChB NZ (1939) MRACP (1946) MRCP (1949) FRACP (1973)
Born: 5/12/1915
Died: 10/7/1994
Norman McCreath was the son of Robert William McCreath, a company director and his wife Florence Violet (nee Stead). He was educated at Timaru Boys High School and Otago University graduating in 1939. He held house surgeon and registrar posts at Dunedin and Wellington Hospitals and gained the MRACP in 1946.
Thereafter he served as a medical officer in the second NZEF but did not return to New Zealand after the war. In 1948 he obtained a consultant post in the fledgling British National Health Service (and was probably the first such to be appointed holding the MRACP only).
Later he moved to Canada and became a staff physician at the Winnipeg and Grace General Hospitals and was also a lecturer in medicine at the University of Manitoba. He served on the boards of his hospitals and was vice-chairman of the Alcoholism Foundation of Manitoba.
In 1939 he had married Joy Tiarora Reid whose father was a professor of accountancy and there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage.
Children of Norman Dryburgh McCreath and Joy Tiarora Reid:
Robin Louise Reid born 20 February 1941
Dougal Reid McCreath born 1943
Peter Strack McCreath born 1951