Hamilton Ellis Quick was born in Sydney on 13 November 1882, and when he was 18 months old was brought over to Swansea where he spent most of the rest of his active life. He went to Swansea Grammar School and then to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington where he graduated BSc in 1902. His

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