Diana Manby Mason OBE (née Shaw; 29 July 1922 – 5 June 2007) was a prominent New Zealand medical doctor and obstetrician also active in the anti-abortion movement during the 1970s.
[1][2] Mason's internship at Wellington Hospital during her final year at medical school sparked her interest in obstetrics.
In 1949 she went to England with her husband Bruce Mason and baby daughter to do post–graduate training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
[1][2] She was one of several prominent New Zealanders, including Sir William Liley and Ruth Kirk, who headed an anti-abortion rally in Wellington in 1974.
[4] In the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours, Mason was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.