Robert Durwood Clarkson graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1906 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1910. He worked at the Scottish National Institute, Larbert, as Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Assistant to the Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Resident Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.

James Hunter Harvey Pirie was born in Glasgow in 1878, the son of Dr John Pirie. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1902 and served between 1902 and 1904 as Medical Officer, Bacteriologist, and Geologist to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, publishing reports on bacteriology, geology, and glaciology of the South Orkney Islands. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1907 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1910. In 1913 he joined the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya and later became Superintendent of the Routine Division of the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. He later named the bacterial genus Listeria after Joseph Lister. He died in South Africa in 1965.

James William Keay graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1906 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1910. He worked in Scotland as Clinical Tutor and Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and as Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. His publications include, 'Simple Perineal Operations as Used in Cases of Prolapsus Uteri and for Perineal Repair' (1910).

Robert Dods Brown graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1905 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1910. He worked in Edinburgh as Senior Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Resident Physician at the City Hospital, and Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary before becoming Physician Superintendent at James Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth. His publications include 'Case of Narcolepsy' (1908), 'The Psychoses of Influenza' (1908), and 'Production of Leucocytosis in the Treatment of Mental Disorder' (1912).

David Halliday Croom was born in 1877, the only son of Sir John Halliday Croom. He obtained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1891 and was elected a Fellow in 1910. He worked as Assistant Physician at Leith Hospital, Surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, and Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His publications include 'Tricuspid Stenosis' (1905) and 'Use of Formic Acid in Diphtheria' (1906). He died in 1959.

William Joseph Murphy Barry obtained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1891 and was elected a Fellow in 1911. He worked in the UK and Ireland as Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Hamadryad Seamen's Hospital, Cardiff, Clinical Assistant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Medical and Surgical Resident at Cork North Infirmary.

John Dixon Comrie was born in Peterhead in 1875, the son of a medical practitioner of the same name. He was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB in 1899. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1906 and later graduated MD in Edinburgh. During this period, Comrie became editor of Black's Medical Dictionary, overseeing the first seventeen editions. He held appointments at both the Edinburgh and Glasgow Royal Infirmaries and undertook further study in Berlin and Vienna. On returning to Edinburgh, he worked as a pathologist and physician at the Royal Infirmary and as Consulting Physician to several local hospitals, including the Deaconess Hospital and the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital. He died in 1939.

Sydney Wilson Thompstone obtained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1892 and was elected a Fellow of the College in 1906. His career was spent in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria. His appointments included House Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Medical Officer in Charge of the Public Health Laboratory at Calabar. He published a number of papers relating to tropical medicine, including 'Preliminary Note on an Unclassified Type of West African Fever' and 'Notes on Blackwater Fever in Southern Nigeria', both published in 1901.

Robert Cranston Low was born in Edinburgh in 1879, the son of Thomas Low. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1902. He later graduated MD in 1924, his thesis entitled 'Skin-Sensitiveness to Non-Bacterial Proteins and Toxins' being awarded a Gold Medal and subsequently published as a monograph. Low was appointed Consultant Physician to the Skin Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1906 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1934. He served as President of the British Association of Dermatologists from 1936 to 1937. He died in Edinburgh in 1949.

Robert Brooks Popham obtained the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1886 and was elected a Fellow of the College in 1906. He worked in London as Out-Patient Physical Assistant at the North-West London Hospital and as District Surgeon to the Royal Maternity Charity. He was the author of several books, including 'Hither and Thither', 'Scientism for Slipped Hours', and 'Science and Philosophy'.