Edward Townley Bailey passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1921 and qualified MB BS the following year. He was surgical registrar and resident medical officer to the orthopaedic department of the Middlesex Hospital and orthopaedic surgical specialist to the London County Council. He became honorary consul

Philippa Parry Pughe was born on 3 April, 1897, at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, the only daughter of Canon Thomas St John Pughe. She attended Toowoomba High School until the age of 10 when her parents brought her to England. She visited Rome and Venice where she remembered the Campanile in ruin