Born in London about 1875, the son of George Loosely, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, took second-class honours in physiology, and had his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital and

Harold Levy was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 11, 1875. He was educated at the Catholic Academy, Montreal, where he was gold medalist in 1891 and was trained at McGill University where he was also a gold medalist and graduated BA in 1895 and MD, CM in 1899. In 1900 he took the PhD of Rostock