Ronald Grey Gordon was born on 3 March 1889 in Monteith, Perthshire. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1911. His early appointments included the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Paddington Green Children's Hospital. In 1913 he settled in practice in Bath and proceeded to the MD in the same year. He was Physician to the Royal Mineral Water Hospital from 1920 to 1930 and later to the Bath Royal United Hospital and the Bath and Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital, and also held visiting consultant posts locally. He served for twenty-two years on the Journal Committee of the British Medical Association and represented the Bath Division from 1922. His publication includes 'Hydrology and Chronic Rheumatic Diseases' (1927). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 November 1926 and died on 26 April 1950 aged 61.

James Richan Drever was born in Alexandria on the Clyde in 1873. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Glasgow in 1906 and entered general practice on the south side of Glasgow. He was active in the British Medical Association from 1914 and chaired the Insurance Acts Subcommittee for Scotland in 1918-19, also serving on the Scottish Committee and later as its Chairman in 1918-19. In 1919 he was appointed Scottish Medical Secretary to the British Medical Association, a post he held until retirement in 1931. He also served on the Hospitals Service (Scotland) Committee and the Consultative Council of Medical and Allied Services. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 November 1926. He died on 7 April 1933.

Alan Leonard Smith Tuke was born in Edinburgh, the youngest son of Sir John Batty Tuke. He qualified MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1887 and continued his studies in Europe. His first appointment was as House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He later settled in general practice and served the Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Major and was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. He was elected President of the Fife Branch of the British Medical Association in 1922 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 2 November 1926. He was made a Free Burgess of Dunfermline in 1931 and appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Fife in 1938. He died on 25 May 1948 aged 82.

John Drummond was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He received a Doctorate in Tropical Medicine from the University of Cambridge in 1914. He served as Medical Officer at Port Herald, Nyasaland, at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, and with the Nyasaland Field Force. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1923.

John Herbert Yearsley graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Classics and Literature. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1904 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1906. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1924 and served as Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Bournemouth. His publications include 'Dissection of Conjunctiva', Medical Annual, and 'The Care of Children's Eyes', Child (1911).

George Joseph Adams was registered at Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1920. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1907 and MD in 1920. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1914 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1924. He served as Consulting Surgeon at the Public Hospital, Wanganui, and as Resident Officer at East Pelton Hospital, Edinburgh.

Andrew Rutherford studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1912 and BSc in Public Health in 1915. He was registered at Palmerston Place, Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1924. He served as Pathologist at Chalmers' Hospital, the Deaconess Hospital, and the Royal Victoria Dispensary for Tuberculosis, Edinburgh, and as Medical Officer for the Sun and Atlas Assurance Consultants. His publications include 'Cardiac Ball Thrombus', The Lancet (1920), and 'Liver Atrophy', Quarterly Journal of Medicine.

Charles George Lambie was born on 24 July 1891 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was educated at Ayr Academy and Stanley House, Stirlingshire, and graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1914. After serving as Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915 and served in Mesopotamia, Poona, and France, receiving the Military Cross in 1918. After the war he was involved in early insulin trials for diabetes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1924. In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, becoming the first full-time academically trained Professor of Medicine in Australia. He died on 28 August 1961 at the Royal North Shore Hospital.

Lawrence Whitaker Harrison was born in 1876 in Lancashire, the son of a general practitioner. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Glasgow in 1897. In 1899 he joined the Royal Army Medical Services and in 1909 took up the post of Pathologist and Researcher in venereal diseases at Rochester Row. In 1919 he was appointed Adviser in Venereal Diseases to the Ministry of Health and placed in charge of the venereal diseases clinic at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 3 February 1925. He was a founding member of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Disease and served as President from 1923-25 and 1938-42. He was Joint Editor of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases from 1925-39 and Sole Editor from 1939-42. Harrison died in 1964.

Henry Yellowlees was born on 11 June 1888 in Glasgow, the son of David Yellowlees, psychiatrist. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Glasgow in 1910 and held early psychiatric house posts in Glasgow, Perth, and Edinburgh. In 1922 he was appointed Assistant to the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. In 1929 he became Physician for Mental Diseases and Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, holding both posts for twenty years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 3 February 1925. After retirement he continued general practice in London and later worked as a Consultant in Bath. His publications include 'A Manual of Psychotherapy' (1923) and 'To Define True Madness' (1953). He died on 5 April 1971.