Adrian Sollom received his medical education at Guy's Hospital where he qualified in 1959. He did his surgical training in ophthalmology at Southampton, Birmingham and Moorfields before going to Wolverhampton as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon. He retired in 1998 and died on 24 April in Canterbury,

Enid Wheldon was born on 18 June 1933 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. Her father, Joseph William Wheldon was a farmer and her mother, Jane née Rutter was a school teacher. After attending Chester-Le-Street Grammar School, she went up to Girton College Cambridge to study medicine and trained at

Alan Patterson was born on 6 May 1933. At his secondary school he was one of the only two students considered good enough to attend university. He studied medicine at Liverpool University commencing in 1950 and qualifying in 1956. Awarded the Robert Gee fellowship in anatomy, he obtained a doctorate

Francis Colin Schwerdt was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Winchester College before receiving his medical training at Oxford where he qualified in 1952. After his national service as regimental medical officer to the 3rd Royal Hussars he embarked on his chosen specialty in ophthalmic surgery