Edward Napier Burnett was born in 1872. He graduated MD from the University of Glasgow in 1908 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. He worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Newcastle and became an organiser of the Northumberland War Hospital during the First World War. In 1916 he was appointed Chairman of the Hospital Economy Committee of the War Office, coordinating military hospital expenditure. He was knighted in 1919 and appointed Director of Hospital Services to the Joint Council of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John in 1920, becoming Chief Executive Officer the following year. He died in Hampstead in 1923.

Charles McNeil was born in Stranraer in 1881, the son of William McNeil, a general practitioner. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1908 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. He spent his career at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, as Assistant Physician and Physician. He became Lecturer in Diseases of Children at the University of Edinburgh in 1925 and was appointed the first Edward Clark Professor of Child Life and Health in 1931. He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1940 to 1943, President of the British Paediatric Association in 1941, and President of the Scottish Paediatric Association from 1950 to 1954. He died in 1964.

James Lorrain Smith was born in Half Morton in 1862, the son of the Revd Walter Smith. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1889 and undertook research in Oxford on blood oxygen capacity. He graduated MD in 1893 and was appointed Lecturer in Pathology at Queen's College Belfast and Honorary Pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He later became Professor of Pathology at the University of Manchester in 1904 and at the University of Edinburgh in 1912. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. During the First World War he developed the hypochlorite antiseptic solution known as Eusol. He was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty in 1919. He died in Edinburgh in 1931.

Norman Scott Carmichael was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Carmichael, a physician. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1905 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. In 1920 he was appointed Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, and Lecturer in Diseases of Children at the University of Edinburgh. After the Second World War he resumed private practice and served as Medical Superintendent at Leith Hospital. He was Surgeon-Apothecary to the King at Holyrood Palace and a member of the Royal Company of Archers. He died in Edinburgh in 1951.

Lewis Hay Frederick Thatcher graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1910 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. He worked in Edinburgh as Clinical Assistant in Medicine at the Royal Infirmary, Assistant Physician at the Edinburgh Lying-In Institute, and Resident Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. His publication includes 'Tylosis Palmaris et Plantaris' (1912).

David Mitchell Macdonald graduated MD from the University of Aberdeen in 1906 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1914. He worked as Visiting Physician at the Manchester and Salford Convalescent Home, Arnside. His publications include 'Ambulance and Sick Nursing Catechisms' (1904), 'Practitioners' Practical Prescriber' (1913), and 'Drug Progress' (1916). He edited the eighth edition of 'Mayne's Medical Dictionary' (1916).

Thomas Bogie Hamilton was born in Melrose in 1879. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1902 and served as Resident Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. In 1906 he moved to Egypt as Medical-Legal Expert to the Egyptian Ministry of Justice and Native Tribunal. He was appointed Professor of Forensic Medicine at Cairo in 1910 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1914. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps at the outbreak of the First World War and died while in charge of the Military Hospital in Cairo.

Alexander Murray Drennan was born in Glasgow in 1884. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1906 and was appointed Professor at the University of Otago in 1914, being elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the same year. During the First World War he promoted the antiseptic use of Eusol. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1924. He became Professor at Queen's University Belfast in 1929 and returned to Edinburgh as Professor of Pathology in 1931, retiring in 1954. He died in Stirling in 1984.

Cecil Hubert Gostwyck graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1899 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1914. He held posts including Senior Assistant Medical Officer at Skirling District Asylum, Assistant Medical Officer at Kent County Asylum, Chartham, and West Riding Asylum, Scalebor Park, and Honorary Surgeon at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. His publication includes 'Juvenile General Paralysis' (1915).

Andrew Fergus Hewat was born in Edinburgh in 1884, the son of Archibald Hewat, an actuary. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1907 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1914. He held posts at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, the Royal Infirmary, and Surgeons' Hall. After service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War, he became Physician to Kingscroft Hospital. He served the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh as Secretary, Curator of the Laboratory, President from 1943 to 1945, Trustee, and Senior Trustee. He died in 1957.