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,

Calbert Inglis Phillips was a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Edinburgh. An only son of the manse, he was born in Glasgow on 20 March 1925, the son of the Rev David Horner Phillips and Margaret Calbert Phillips née Inglis. The family moved to Aberdeen in 1938 and the young Phillips a