Jack Canning

 was the uncle of Jo Grant. Ostensibly Jo's mother's brother, he was a British secret agent, whose influence got Jo a job at UNIT. (DW: Terror of the Autons) Jo once visited him when he was convalescing at Kenstone Hall, a recovery home for injured spies. While at the facility, she discovered that its patients were undergoing inexplicable healing and that its director had been replaced by The Master. (ST: The Touch of the Nurazh)