Barrie Russell Jones was professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of London. He was born at Silverstream, near Wellington, New Zealand, on 4 January 1921. He obtained a degree in natural sciences from Victoria University, Wellington, before studying medicine at the University of Otago,

Wallace Stewart Foulds was born in London on 26 April 1924, when his father James worked at the Treasury being, at one time, a PA to Lloyd George. He had also worked as a conciliation officer to Nye Bevan, the instigator of the National Health Service. His mother was Nellie Margaret née Stewart; she