Andrew Morrison was born on 3 December 1925 in Huelva, southern Spain, where his father, William Andrew Morrison, was a mining engineer. His mother was Violet Mary née Common, the daughter of a dentist. The family returned to Scotland and Andrew attended Stirling High School, where he excelled both

Patrick Moore was born in Bristol on 17 March 1918. His father Arthur Eisdell Moore ("Eisdell"), who was in England on a post-War surgical appointment at that time, met his mother, Alice, a nurse from Yorkshire, in 1915 when serving as a field surgeon with the RAMC on the Western Front. Patrick was