Eu Sen Vincent Ooi was head of the eye department at the faculty of medicine, University of Malaya. He was born in Malaya on 1 February 1929. He studied medicine at the University of Malaya, where he was a college exhibitioner. He qualified in 1957. He was a senior house officer in ophthalmology

Barry King graduated MB BS from Melbourne University in 1958. After initial postgraduate training at Prince Henry's Hospital and the Repatriation Gen Hospital he went to England in 1966 and gained his FRCS. From 1966 until 1968 he worked with Peter Martin, first at Chelmsford and then at the Hammers