Basil Stanley Kuming was an ophthalmic surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. Born on 4 January 1937, he was the oldest son of Chaim Kuming, an hotelier, and his wife Frieda née Lurge. Educated at St Andrew’s School in Bloemfontein where he won a prize for English in 1954, he then attended the Unive

John Richard Havers-Strong, generally known as Richard Strong, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Conquest Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea. Educated at Oundle School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where his father had attended 30 years previously, Richard became energetically involved in rowing, c