Charles Mowbray Pearson was born c.1875. During the First World War he volunteered his services to the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee and served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1902 and elected a Fellow in 1905. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society in 1902. He died in 1948.

Edwin Matthew was born in Aberdeen. He studied at the University of Aberdeen, graduating MA in 1889, and worked as a teacher before commencing medical training. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1897 and was awarded the MD degree in 1908. He served as House Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and was appointed Assistant Physician at the Royal Infirmary in 1909, becoming Physician in Charge of Wards in 1921, a post he held until 1936. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1902 and elected a Fellow in 1906. He represented the College on the General Medical Council for five years. He died in 1950.

Sir Andrew Balfour was born in Edinburgh in 1873. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MD in 1898, and also undertook study at the University of Cambridge between 1895 and 1897. He was awarded the BSc in Public Health by the University of Edinburgh in 1900. He served initially as a military surgeon before taking up appointment as Medical Officer in Khartoum. In 1913, on his return to Britain, he founded the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research. During the First World War he again served in military medicine, with postings including Egypt and East Africa. In 1923 he was appointed Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He died in Kent in 1931.

Douglas Chalmers Watson was born in Scotland in 1870, the son of Walter Watson MD. He was educated at George Watson's College before studying chemical physiology at the University of Edinburgh between 1897 and 1898. After serving as House Physician at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1901. He worked in Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer's laboratory on nutritional research and was awarded the Alvarenga Prize by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He published widely on diet and nutrition, including 'The Book of Diet' (1913) and 'Food and Feeling in Health and Disease' (1915), and was founding editor of 'The Encyclopaedia Medica'. Douglas Chalmers Watson died in 1946 at Fenton Barns, East Lothian.

David James Graham was born in Edinburgh in 1871. He was educated at George Watson's College and graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1895. He served as a resident at the Royal Maternity Hospital and held posts at the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Simpson's Maternity Hospital before graduating MD in 1899. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1898 and elected a Fellow in 1901. During the First World War he served in France with the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force), attaining the rank of Major. David James Graham died in a sanatorium in Aberdeenshire in 1925.

Frederick James Tresilian was born in London circa 1862. Following the death of his parents, he moved to Cork, where he was educated and later graduated MD from Queen's College Cork. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1901 and of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1902. He contributed articles to the British Medical Journal throughout his career. During the First World War he served as Honorary Medical Officer at Enfield War Memorial Hospital. Frederick James Tresilian died in Enfield, London, in 1926.

John Rutherford Gilmour was born in Edinburgh in 1871 and educated at George Watson's College. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB CM with first-class honours in 1894. After holding a resident post at the Edinburgh Infirmary and spending a short period in general practice, he joined Sir Thomas Clouston's staff at Morningside as an Assistant Physician and began his career in psychiatry. He later became Senior Assistant Physician under Dr Rutherford at the Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, where he remained until 1901. That year he was appointed by the West Riding County Council to direct the new mental hospital for private patients at Scalebor Park, Burley-in-Wharfedale. He served as Medical Superintendent from its opening in 1902 until his retirement in 1939. He died on 28 October 1942.

Dugald Christie was born in 1855, the son of a sheep farmer in Glencoe. Orphaned in childhood, he was apprenticed to a draper in Glasgow before studying medicine under the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. In 1882 Christie travelled to Manchuria (Northeast China) as a medical missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Based first in Newchang and later in Mukden (now Shenyang), he established a network of dispensaries and in the mid 1880s opened the first hospital in Manchuria. Christie promoted the training of local medical staff, leading to the founding of Mukden Medical College in 1912. After the death of his first wife Elizabeth in 1888, he married Liza Inglis in 1892. He retired in 1923 and died in Edinburgh in 1936.
 

William Blackley Drummond received his medical education at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1891 and later proceeding to MD in 1918. He had a particular interest in the diseases and mental development of children and held appointments at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He later entered private practice and was appointed Superintendent of the Baldovan Institute in Dundee, where he pursued research into child psychology. In 1920 he published 'An Introduction to Child-Study'. William Blackley Drummond died in Dunfermline in 1937.

John Eason was born in Armadale, West Lothian, in 1874. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB in 1896 and MD in 1905. He was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1899 and elected a Fellow in 1905. He held honorary appointments at Leith Hospital, Chalmers Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps at the 58th Scottish General Hospital in the Middle East. Later in his career he was Senior Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Lecturer in the Practice of Physic at the Edinburgh Royal Colleges' School of Medicine. John Eason died in Edinburgh in 1964, aged ninety.