Jacob Sherne was resident ophthalmic officer at Leeds General Infirmary before becoming consultant in ophthalmic surgery to Leeds Hospital Group A. During the second world war he served with the RAMC with the rank of Major. He died on 20 March 1974.

After graduating MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1926, Frederick George Fenton became a resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he became a resident medical officer and later, registrar at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospit