Michael Patrick Quinlan was born on 17 March 1943 in Southport, Lancashire and studied medicine at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1967. In London he was a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, associate lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology and resident surgical officer at Moo

Haripada Adhikary was an ophthalmologist at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was born in 1941 in pre-partition India in the small village of Rampal in the district of Khulna, the son of Upendra Nath Adhikary and Kalidasi Adhikary. He initially worked as a mathematics teacher, but later studied medicin